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ThinkPads On Linux Appear Nearly Ready For Improved Trackpoint Doubletap Handling

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

Being worked on for a while by Lenovo engineer Vishnu Sankar is nicely handling support for double-tap functionality with TrackPoints on ThinkPads under Linux. The sixth iteration of this enablement work was posted today and is just documentation updates, so it's looking like this new TrackPoint doubletap code could soon be crossing the threshold for the mainline Linux kernel...

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