I Built nubmiddle: TrackPoint Middle Click and Scroll Together on Windows

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 20:30:00 +0900

This is a sequel, nine years late (I counted), to an article I wrote in Japanese in 2017 about making the ThinkPad TrackPoint’s middle button comfortable on Windows. I built nubmiddle, a Windows tool that does just one thing: it lets the TrackPoint’s middle button both middle-click and scroll. It’s now on the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NNH2W7M8MGP
GitHub: https://github.com/akivajp/nubmiddle

It does only two things:

Click the middle button → a normal middle click (close a tab, open a link in a new tab, and so on)
Hold the middle button and push the stick → scroll vertically or horizontally

About the name: “nub” is what ThinkPad fans call the TrackPoint. (In Japan we call it aka-pocchi, roughly “the little red dot”.) It’s a tool for the nub’s middle button, hence nubmiddle.

TrackPoint on KANAF Works

I Built nubmiddle: TrackPoint Middle Click and Scroll Together on Windows