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I'm a huge fan of the TrackPoint as well. Just wish for two things: - Fix the drift issue. It's infuriating that modern ThinkPads have the same issue machines

by imiric 4y ago

I'm a huge fan of the TrackPoint as well. Just wish for two things: - Fix the drift issue. It's infuriating that modern ThinkPads have the same issue machines from 20 years ago did. - Innovation. Related to the above, it's embarrassing that Lenovo hasn't improved the technology in seemingly any way. It's far from a perfect design, yet mechanically it's essentially the same device from 20 years ago. I concede that I haven't done a teardown to confirm this, but functionally and externally it appears to be the same. Make it more reliable, precise, sensitive, etc. Maybe add touch sensitivity to allow clicking, though this could easily register false positives, so it needs to be done right. I don't know... _something_ to improve IBM's design.

unregistereddev 4y ago
> add touch sensitivity to allow clicking They did add this feature and it is wonderful. You can configure how hard a tap it takes to register a click.
- imiric 4y ago
  Hhmm it seems this was present on some older models, but according to Reddit[1], it was apparently removed on newer models. Which model and OS are you using? I'm using a 2018 X1 Extreme and it's not supported in Linux by xf86-input-libinput. According to ArchWiki[2] there should be a `press_to_select` sysfs attribute, which doesn't exist on my system. [1]: https://teddit.net/r/thinkpad/comments/66ltor/ https://teddit.net/r/thinkpad/comments/66ltor/ [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TrackPoint https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TrackPoint