TrackPoint Scroll

This works for my Lenovo ThinkPad R61 (7732-CTO) running Archlinux.

Create a file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy called mouse-wheel.fdi with the following:

<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">>true</merge>>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">>2</merge>>
<merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">>4 5</merge>>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">>6 7</merge>>
<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">>true</merge>>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">>200</merge>>
</match>>

Kindly ignore the duplicate tags.

Now, if you click and hold the middle mouse button, you can use the TrackPoint to scroll vertically and horizontally. As of June 8, 2009, I am still unable to get my touchpad to work ><

ksh PS1 and reloading .profile

OpenBSD comes with a plain "$" prompt in the shell. To spice things up, enter the following in your .profile:

PS1="\u@\h:\w$ "; export PS1

This will give username@host:PWD$.

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To reload the .profile after making these changes, type the following:

. $HOME/.profile

There is a space after the first dot. Source

SCIM in OpenSolaris

Add the following two lines to your $HOME/.profile file:

GTK_IM_MODULE=scim

export GTK_IM_MODULE

Flash Player 10 on OpenSolaris

1. Download the .tar.bz2 file from Adobe.


2. bunzip2 [name of file]


3. tar -xvf [name of file]


4. cd [name of directory]


5. cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins


6. Restart Firefox