soooo - i got a… thinkpad x1 … yoga gen 8 - and its great!
works flawlessly, i love the trackpoint - great navigation.
however! i have found that this middle trackpad button isnt really a middle mouse button at all! its great for scrolling with the trackpoint and it works great for a middle-mouse-button click when just clicked once, but when held, the laptop seems to expect a scroll from the trackpoint.
i need the middle-mouse-button-dragging for navigation within the godot game engine and blender.
sooo - i tried finding a way to emulate middle click using both left - and right trackpad buttons, but to no avail.
the closest i have gotten is by cloning and running this repo here, which made it so that, when left and right buttons are pressed, they emulate the physical middle trackpad button pres… which lets me scroll using the trackpoint, but doesnt actually emulate the real middle mouse button press (so still no middle-mouse-buton drag ;( )
(yes, i tried the gsettings command they provide in the - that didnt work either, seemingly nothing changed)
does someone have a solution for this?

I’m not sure if what you want to do is possible, I’d bet somehow it can be done, but I’m gonna go ahead and say that 100x easier is to buy a cheap mouse.