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"Did you just get used to OS X Lion’s inverse scrolling? Me, too! " I initially thought the author was being sarcastic, but the next few lines suggest he was

by niggler 14y ago

"Did you just get used to OS X Lion’s inverse scrolling? Me, too! " I initially thought the author was being sarcastic, but the next few lines suggest he was serious. There's a really easy way to change the OSX setting (and I do this on every mac I use): System Preferences -> Mouse -> Scroll & Zoom -> uncheck "Scroll direction"

vxNsr 14y ago
Yeah, I barely use OS X (all home computers are W7/8 and my Uni has a very limited number of macs, in fact I only ever used them because of the novelty but when I found everything ten times harder to do because I couldn't use my shortcuts and the UI was totally different from what I was used to I avoided them) but the first thing I did after realizing that OS X messes with scrolling was change it so it made sense. no googling was required, I just checked out the Sys Preferences like you suggest.
- cshesse 14y ago
  Yeah same here, only replace "OS X" with "Windows".
velodrome 14y ago
This also changes the behavior of swiping (it reverses the swiping direction). Try it.
randallsquared 14y ago
I also prefer OS X Lion's scrolling, and tried to get it to work in Ubuntu. The solution I tried was xmodmap, but it turned out that this isn't respected everywhere (notably, a bunch of GTK programs ignore this), which means that scrolling direction then depends on which window you're in, which is worse than nothing. :( For now, I've given up on Linux on the desktop. I even liked Unity, except for how slow it was, but after trying Windows 8 (first Windows since W95!), I've switched for desktop use. Maybe I'll swap out my Air for a Chromebook Pixel. ;)
- dhruvmittal 14y ago
  I've never even used OSX Lion, but I still prefer "natural" scrolling. I just run a script on login that contains "xinput set-prop 13 303 -111 -111". Obviously, you'll have to find the numbers in your current xinput as to obtain the device and preserve your optimal scroll speed (My example was for a Lenovo W510). This reverses the scroll direction on my trackpad, but not on the scroll wheel of my physical mouse or my lenovo nipple mouse.

by niggler 14y ago

vxNsr 14y ago

Yeah, I barely use OS X (all home computers are W7/8 and my Uni has a very limited number of macs, in fact I only ever used them because of the novelty but when I found everything ten times harder to do because I couldn't use my shortcuts and the UI was totally different from what I was used to I avoided them) but the first thing I did after realizing that OS X messes with scrolling was change it so it made sense. no googling was required, I just checked out the Sys Preferences like you suggest.

cshesse 14y ago
Yeah same here, only replace "OS X" with "Windows".

velodrome 14y ago

This also changes the behavior of swiping (it reverses the swiping direction). Try it.

randallsquared 14y ago

I also prefer OS X Lion's scrolling, and tried to get it to work in Ubuntu. The solution I tried was xmodmap, but it turned out that this isn't respected everywhere (notably, a bunch of GTK programs ignore this), which means that scrolling direction then depends on which window you're in, which is worse than nothing. :( For now, I've given up on Linux on the desktop. I even liked Unity, except for how slow it was, but after trying Windows 8 (first Windows since W95!), I've switched for desktop use. Maybe I'll swap out my Air for a Chromebook Pixel. ;)

dhruvmittal 14y ago
I've never even used OSX Lion, but I still prefer "natural" scrolling. I just run a script on login that contains "xinput set-prop 13 303 -111 -111". Obviously, you'll have to find the numbers in your current xinput as to obtain the device and preserve your optimal scroll speed (My example was for a Lenovo W510). This reverses the scroll direction on my trackpad, but not on the scroll wheel of my physical mouse or my lenovo nipple mouse.