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Re: Levovo trackpoint come delayed (reproducable with xev)
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Paul Maier <svn-user at web dot de>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:18:00 +0000
- Subject: Re: Levovo trackpoint come delayed (reproducable with xev)
- References: <000301ccd95b$09e07ca0$1da175e0$@de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On 22/01/2012 23:10, Paul Maier wrote:
> Lenovo trackpoint scrolling events get buffered somewhere until I release the button:
> then I get hundreds of scrolling events all at once.
>
> I can clearly see these events in xev.
>
> Result is that I don't really experience scrolling, rather jumping up and down
> with a random-like distance.
>
> With trackpoint I mean that red button in the middle of a Lenovo laptop.
>
> (Mouse wheel scrolling works perfect, in contrast.)
Have you tried the workaround given in [1] ?
According to the internet, the trackpoint driver tries to be too clever and
doesn't send WM_MOUSEWHEEL messages, but tries to fiddle with the Windows
scrollbars directly itself, which obviously isn't going to work well for an X
window :S
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-trackpoint
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Jon TURNEY
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