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You have always been able to reverse the scroll direction in the Mouse/Trackpad options. It’s a checkbox that says “Scroll direction: Natural”. As for your jum

You have always been able to reverse the scroll direction in the Mouse/Trackpad options. It’s a checkbox that says “Scroll direction: Natural”. As for your jumping issue that sounds like a hardware problem. It might just be that your mouse wheel is dirty.

throwawayboise 5y ago
It's struck me as peculiar but with a trackpad or a mouse the "drag down to move screen content up" feels natural, but on a touch-screen, phone, or tablet it's the opposite. So on a Mac I always have to change the default trackpad preference.
- pimlottc 5y ago
  I think it makes sense for touchscreen scrolling to work the way it does, but for mouse, I don’t think either way is really more natural, it’s just what you’re used to. I used the “old” way in Windows and Linux for years, but it was pretty easy to “relearn” when I switched to Mac.
  - Jare 5y ago
    For me, relearning the scroll direction on the touchpad was trivial, however on the wheel it just never worked at all.
Jare 5y ago
You can reverse on both or neither, but not for just one. That's why there's 3rd party software like this one. Scroll jumping should be a hardware issue but I've swapped mice and same issue; both also work fine on windows. It could be the USB hub, I've still to try something with that, but it sounds... unlikely.
vladvasiliu 5y ago
> You have always been able to reverse the scroll direction in the Mouse/Trackpad options. It’s a checkbox that says “Scroll direction: Natural”. Yes, but, for some reason, changing this to the old direction breaks the volume / backlight in the menu drop-down panel. Which is clearly a bug because: Scrolling up / down always changes the volume the same way: down is lower. But if "natural" is unchecked (so scrolling down moves content up) then scrolling left moves the volume control to the right. If "natural" is checked, then scrolling left moves the control to the left. This behaviour has been broken at least since they introduced the horizontal volume panel, not sure which version that was. Not sure how it worked before, because it had never occurred to me to scroll sideways on a vertical control.

throwawayboise 5y ago

It's struck me as peculiar but with a trackpad or a mouse the "drag down to move screen content up" feels natural, but on a touch-screen, phone, or tablet it's the opposite. So on a Mac I always have to change the default trackpad preference.

pimlottc 5y ago
I think it makes sense for touchscreen scrolling to work the way it does, but for mouse, I don’t think either way is really more natural, it’s just what you’re used to. I used the “old” way in Windows and Linux for years, but it was pretty easy to “relearn” when I switched to Mac.
- Jare 5y ago
  For me, relearning the scroll direction on the touchpad was trivial, however on the wheel it just never worked at all.

Jare 5y ago

You can reverse on both or neither, but not for just one. That's why there's 3rd party software like this one. Scroll jumping should be a hardware issue but I've swapped mice and same issue; both also work fine on windows. It could be the USB hub, I've still to try something with that, but it sounds... unlikely.

vladvasiliu 5y ago

> You have always been able to reverse the scroll direction in the Mouse/Trackpad options. It’s a checkbox that says “Scroll direction: Natural”. Yes, but, for some reason, changing this to the old direction breaks the volume / backlight in the menu drop-down panel. Which is clearly a bug because: Scrolling up / down always changes the volume the same way: down is lower. But if "natural" is unchecked (so scrolling down moves content up) then scrolling left moves the volume control to the right. If "natural" is checked, then scrolling left moves the control to the left. This behaviour has been broken at least since they introduced the horizontal volume panel, not sure which version that was. Not sure how it worked before, because it had never occurred to me to scroll sideways on a vertical control.