Re: Levovo trackpoint come delayed (reproducable with xev)

[Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

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
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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