This works for me, however, instead of looking for the device `TPPS/2 Elan Trackpoint`, I had to use the id of `TrackPoint Keyboard 2`. The downside of this fix is that pasting with the middle button does not work anymore.
R. Wetzker, W. Umbrath, and A. Said. ESAIR '09: Proceedings of the WSDM '09 Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval, page 25--29. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)
S. Maslov, and S. Redner. (2009)cite arxiv:0901.2640
Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure, invited comment for the Journal of Neuroscience.
The arxiv version is microscopically different from the published version.
J. Vig, S. Sen, and J. Riedl. IUI '09: Proceedingsc of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, page 47--56. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)