d630 trackpoint scrolling

Possible? How?



I have all but decided on a d630, but one very minor issue (that I would surely adapt to anyways) is the difference b/t thinkpad's trackpoint setup and that of dell's.

I am so used to resting my hand in place on the keyboard and scrolling with that middle button and the stick. only two buttons corresponding to dell's pointing stick. I understand settings can be altered to somehow scroll like this. Can anyone specifically tell me how this would be done with only two buttons?

 

You can set in Mouse Properties (under Control Panel) so that hitting both buttons together corresponds to Middle Click, which will bring up the scroll cursor when not actually clicking something.

The above works but not nearly as well as a dedicated middle click button. I've posted to add a middle click button to the trackstick on Dell's IdeaStorm: http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/67721/Add_MiddleclickScroll_Button_to_Trackstick. Promote it!

 

lol so I'm not the only one.

Interesting that you can make both pushed at the same time have a function. Never would have thought of that. And those two buttons are immediately adjacent right? Might not be too bad.

Is that how you currently operate it, by scrolling w/both buttons?

 

middle click is used by enabling it on your mouse properties... then click both left and right buttons together and you get to enjoy your middle click... very useful when i forget to bring along my optical mouse..

 

This is the case with a lot of laptops, but it's really annoying to do this in the real world because once you have the scroll cursor up, you have to click again to turn it off.

The Thinkpads is so nice to use in the real work that the only substitute that I have found that works almost as well is the two-finger scrolling on a Mac. Very intuitive and natural.

How hard would this be to implement and laptop vendors are too dumb to copy from their competitors.