From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21350 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2012 13:18:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 21331 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jan 2012 13:18:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (HELO smtpout.karoo.kcom.com) (212.50.160.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:17:50 +0000 Received: from 213-152-38-55.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO [192.168.1.109]) ([213.152.38.55]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 23 Jan 2012 13:17:46 +0000 Message-ID: <4F1D5E08.5020803@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:18:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: Paul Maier Subject: Re: Levovo trackpoint come delayed (reproducable with xev) References: <000301ccd95b$09e07ca0$1da175e0$@de> In-Reply-To: <000301ccd95b$09e07ca0$1da175e0$@de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 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 -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/