> Johannes Thyssen Tishman wrote: > > I have the following in ~/.xsession to get middle mouse button scrolling > with the trackpoint (see ws(4)): > > xinput set-prop "/dev/wsmouse" "WS Pointer Wheel Emulation" 1 > xinput set-prop "/dev/wsmouse" "WS Pointer Wheel Emulation Button" 2 > xinput set-prop "/dev/wsmouse" "WS Pointer Wheel Emulation Axes" 6 7 4 5 > > If you want "natural scrolling" you can reverse the scrolling direction > with the following: > > # wsconsctl mouseX.reverse_scrolling=1 > > where X is the index of the of the wsmouse device (in this case the > trackpoint, see wsmouse(4)). To make this permanent you can append the > variable assignment above to /etc/wsconsctl.conf (see wsconsctl.conf(5)).
Hi Johannes, That was very helpful, thank you! I switched from sway to i3, and that worked perfectly. The biggest thing that I miss about sway is being able to use foot, which is a pretty good terminal emulator. I hear good things about kitty, but my OpenGL version is too old for it. Right now I'm on xterm which is functional, but not my favorite. > patrick keshishian wrote: Hi Patrick, > I may not be understanding you entirely. e.g., I am not certain > of your reference to "sway". sway is a tiling window manager that uses Wayland instead of X. It's designed to be just like i3, which is for X. > > Many years ago I configured my X configuration by hand, then it > > generally seemed to "figure it out" and I've been configuration-less for > > a while. I'm not sure what the best practices currently are. > > I too, for several releases, did not have to have an xorg.conf, but > with OpenBSD 7.6 (possibly with 7.5 as well), I had to create one > with following for the trackpad (touchpad) to work as it did before, > and where I could use synclient(1) to adjust/define its behavior. > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "touchpad" > Driver "synaptics" > EndSection > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" > InputDevice "touchpad" > EndSection > > Without this section, the "synaptics" module was not getting > loaded. Interesting. It does look like on the T400 the touchpad is synaptics and wsconsctl is showing it as synaptics. With Johannes' adjustment, and using i3 rather than sway, my mouse behavior seems to be back to normal. I imagine this will be portable to the other systems as long as I keep using i3. Thank you both for your help! -Henrich
