On 10 December 2011 15:15, Ryan Johnson wrote: > Hi all (esp. Andy), > > A recent email on the cygwin/x mailing list pointed out that Lenovo > trackpoint scrolling had stopped working in xterm [1]. I didn't know it was > there in the first place, but I can just imagine how useful it would be. Any > chance of mintty picking up that functionality? Combining mintty's existing > handling of mouse scrolling with the trackpoint would be really slick, but I > don't know how hard it would be. It's also unclear whether the X11 faq entry > about trackpoint is out of date [2], since I've never followed those > directions and yet xterm scrolls fine for me. > > [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-12/msg00022.html > [2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-trackpoint
I'm afraid I don't know what special support if any might be needed here, and I haven't got the hardware to try it. Both scroll messages and mousewheel messages should work already, so unless there's a special message type for trackpoints, this sounds primarily like a driver configuration issue. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple