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Me too if being a bit hyperbolic. I also use the external Thinkpad branded keyboards with Trackpoint for desktop machines or even our "media PC" hooked to our T
by saltcured 2y ago
Me too if being a bit hyperbolic. I also use the external Thinkpad branded keyboards with Trackpoint for desktop machines or even our "media PC" hooked to our TV screen. I feel vaguely disabled if put in front of a computer with only a touchpad, in the "I have no mouth but I must scream" sense.
I am keyboard focused, and mostly use the Trackpoint to change window focus or place a text cursor. I would prefer a desktop mouse for any precision pointer movement such as in photo editing or vector drawing.
The biggest frustration I've had is plenty of regressions in how Linux, Xorg, and/or Wayland handle the Trackpoint input. The calibration, acceleration, etc. can go completely crazy after some software update and it is basically impossible to bring it back the way it was using the available GUI desktop settings manager. Worse, this happens differently for different Trackpoint hardware instances, so in a household with multiple Thinkpads and external keyboards, muscle memory doesn't carry from one machine to another.
I also like getting scroll wheel emulation via Trackpad gestures, but the drivers seem to get into weird states of ignoring inputs on one or both. I don't know if this is some ham-fisted attempt at "ignore input while typing" that generalized into "ignore input during other inputs" and gets it wrong. I'll see moments where scroll gestures stop working, or others where the Trackpoint seems to be unresponsive.