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madders

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From: Reading, UK

Registered: 2012-04-01

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] Inverse / natural scrolling

Hi,

Does anyone have any ideas how I can change the scroll direction on my touch pad, without also affecting the scroll wheel on my mouse? I've inverted the scrolling for both by adding the following line to .Xmodmap:

pointer = 3 2 1 5 4 7 6 8 9 10 11 12

This works great for the touch pad, but I can't get used to the scroll wheel being the wrong way round on the mouse.

I've checked synclient to see if there are any obvious parameters which might do this only for the touch pad, but I can't see any.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Michael

Last edited by madders (2012-04-03 20:36:34)

syngin

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From: Melbourne

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 39

Re: [SOLVED] Inverse / natural scrolling

Try: http://n00bsys0p.wordpress.com/2011/07/ … scrolling/

You should be able to limit the change to a single pointing device by using xinput.

madders

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From: Reading, UK

Registered: 2012-04-01

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Inverse / natural scrolling

Thank you very much. This was exactly what I was looking for, and it works perfectly.

hnrch

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2012-03-28

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Inverse / natural scrolling

Also worked for me, thanks!

perpetrator

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Registered: 2008-09-22

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Inverse / natural scrolling

Anyone else having trouble with inverse scrolling in GNOME 3.4? In some applications, scrolling direction is not inverted, for example nautilus or gedit, whereas other ones (chromium, gnome-terminal) behave like I want them to.
I guess this happens because GNOME's/Xorg's new smooth scrolling (http://who-t.blogspot.de/2011/09/whats- … lling.html) gets its input directly via the movement on the touchpad and doesn't care about the button mappings in my .Xmodmap or xinput settings.
Does anyone have an idea how to also invert the direction of smooth scrolling? Or maybe how to simply switch it off and get the old non-smooth scrolling back?

pictuga

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Registered: 2012-04-24

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Inverse / natural scrolling

@perpetrator I have the same issue. I just made a bug report : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674716 Some Ubuntu users have the same issue (link in bug report).

perpetrator

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Registered: 2008-09-22

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Inverse / natural scrolling

Found a simple solution, at least for my laptop: It is now possible to invert the scrolling direction inside the synaptics driver.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver … 25c9bc490c
Just use the options VertScrollDelta and HorizScrollDelta and set them to a negative value (in my case -48 each) in your synaptics config. No need for button mapping anymore.

Now I just have find a way to fix the issue on my desktop pc...