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How do you scroll? Do use scroll bars?
by __david__ 13y ago
How do you scroll? Do use scroll bars?
- spongle 13y agoHold the middle button and use the nipple. It scrolls like a mousewheel.
- jlgreco 13y agoOn thinkpads you can press the middle mouse button (below the spacebar) then press the trackpoint up or down. I have always usually done this, but also remapped the trackpad to be entirely a "scrollpad"
- w1ntermute 13y ago> On thinkpads you can press the middle mouse button (below the spacebar) then press the trackpoint up or down. Yep, and you can also click and release the middle mouse button, then separately mouse up or down. Interestingly, I have only been able to get either this OR the press then scroll behavior you described working on Windows (by toggling a setting), but in Linux you can have both enabled at the same time.
- jlgreco 13y agoBizarrely, Linux seems to support much of the trackpoint/trackpad stuff on thinkpads better than Windows does. I use to not be able to configure the trackpad how I wanted on Windows, but the Synaptics driver for Linux gave me plenty of possibilities.
- amalcon 13y agoI use the arrow keys.
- spongle 13y agoPretty good solution actually as well. Older ThinkPad keyboards have back and forward keys next to the arrows as well.
- kefka 13y agoI have a T61 thinkpad, and love it. I use Linux on it solely. I have compiz bound to those forward and back arrows as cube_rotate_left and right. And I also run 8 desktops. Makes my world so much simpler in terms of organization of programs and flow.
- selimthegrim 13y agoFellow T61er on Linux chiming in. A thousand MBAs couldn't tear me away.
- spongle 13y agoNice idea. So going to do that on my spare T61 later :)