Get Mac OS X Lion Style Reverse Scrolling On Ubuntu
July 27th, 2011
Just switched to new Mac OS X Lion and adjusting to the reverse scrolling feature, I have started to have problems with the Ubuntu I am using at work. Although it is kind of a mind exercise, I realized that having 2 different scrolling directions at home and at work is not for me. So here is the thing that you should do to have Mac OS X Lion style scrolling at Ubuntu as well.
Just add this command to your startup (System -> Preferences -> Startup Apps):
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 5 4"
This is a beautiful hack–bravo! And it should work on almost any Linux distribution since it’s just X11. It just fixed up my sanity on CentOS.
Thanks! I am glad it is a useful trick for you. You are right, it should work on most of the distros as well. Surrounded with Ubuntu everywhere, it is the only Linux distro that comes to my mind nowadays
I love the simplicity of this hack. Good job. Bookmarked.
Very useful (I’m using it with Ubuntu 11.04. And very simple as well, you just have to add he command to startup apps.
And about the horizontal scrolling??
Very useful!
Thank you so much!