I would love to see this patch applied.  I've been using tpscroll
(http://rsim.cs.uiuc.edu/~sachs/tp-scroll/) to get this functionality
for years.  it'd be nice to have it as part of xfree86.

Alex

--- Mathias Fröhlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have implemented a new feature for the mouse driver.
> On the one side I like the copy and paste function with the middle
> mouse 
> button in X11. On the other side I like the scrolling capability
> using the 
> same middle mouse button and a trackpoint like it is built into most
> IBM 
> notebooks. But with the current mouse driver it is not possible to
> have both.
> 
> I wanted to have both and just implemented this into the mouse
> driver. Using 
> this patch there is a new mouse driver integer option called 
> EmulateWheelTimeout.
> If the EmulateWheel button is pressed and released within this timout
> the 
> original button press/release event is emitted. If it is pressed
> longer than 
> this timeout you can use use the mouse axis like usual with
> EmulateWheel for 
> scrolling.
> 
> This is a very usefull feature for notebooks with trackpoints.
> 
> Attached is a patch to yesterdays cvs tree. Please apply!
> 
> Since I am not on any xfree list please cc me on reply.
> 
>    Many thanks in advance
> 
>        Mathias Fröhlich
> 


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