Comment 17 for bug 966237

Will an option for natural scrolling with mouses also be added to the
system settings in the future?
On Apr 27, 2013 9:31 AM, "Miguel Mendes Ruiz" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Confirmed in Ubuntu 13.04. This release has the natural scrolling option
> in system settings for the touchpad, and it seems to work if you don't
> want to natural scroll with your mouse wheel. The xinput method in other
> hand, which would work for the mouse too, doesn't behave as expected in
> nautilus, software-center and perhaps others.
>
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> Title:
> Scrolling directing is hard-coded/reversed from xinput
>
> Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
> New
> Status in Natural Scrolling for Linux:
> Confirmed
> Status in “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> My computer is set to use natural scrolling like my phone and tablet. I
> use .Xmodmap and I can
> ! Note that 4 5 and 6 7 are reversed to behave like a table.
> xinput set-button-map 11 1 2 3 5 4 7 6 8 9 10 11 12
>
> A combination of upgrades to unity, compiz, and xorg over the last few
> days has caused some apps (gedit and gwibber) to scroll the opposite
> direct of chromium and thunderbird. This is maddening. I can see that
> the apps that scroll the wrong way have very smooth scrolling
> indicative of unity and MT.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
>
> ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
> Architecture: amd64
> CompizPlugins:
> [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
> CompositorRunning: compiz
> Date: Tue Mar 27 09:45:32 2012
> DistUpgraded: 2012-01-15 12:15:48,512 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
> DistroCodename: precise
> DistroVariant: ubuntu
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64
> (20111012)
> MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookAir4,2
> ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic
> root=UUID=be18758e-a70e-4fbd-b26b-0cab706d92f0 ro quiet splash
> i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 vt.handoff=7
> SourcePackage: unity
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-15 (71 days ago)
> dmi.bios.date: 01/24/2012
> dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: MBA41.88Z.0077.B0F.1201241549
> dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
> dmi.board.name: Mac-742912EFDBEE19B3
> dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
> dmi.board.version: MacBookAir4,2
> dmi.chassis.type: 10
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
> dmi.chassis.version: Mac-742912EFDBEE19B3
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBA41.88Z.0077.B0F.1201241549:bd01/24/2012:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookAir4,2:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-742912EFDBEE19B3:rvrMacBookAir4,2:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-742912EFDBEE19B3:
> dmi.product.name: MacBookAir4,2
> dmi.product.version: 1.0
> dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
> version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu4
> version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu35
> version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
> version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu2
> version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
> version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu2
> version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu7
> version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
> 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
> version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
> version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
> version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2
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