Jumat, 29 Juli 2011

How to Enable OS X Lion-style ‘Natural Scrolling’ in Ubuntu

OS X Lion introduced natural/reverse scrolling where by “content tracks finger movement”. 
If you’ve ever used a touchscreen smartphone you’ll already be familiar with how this works: you drag down to scroll up; you drag up to scroll down.

Natural Scrolling‘ by Charalampos brings reverse scrolling to Ubuntu.


Reverse Scrolling is likely better demonstrated than explained. If you can’t quite get your head around it the following video does an excellent job of  showing it off: -


Download Natural Scrolling for Ubuntu 

Natural Scrolling’ requires a handful of dependencies: -
Once the above dependencies have been installed you can proceed to download the .Deb installer.
Double-click on the .Deb to open it in the Ubuntu Software Centre. Hit the ‘Install’ button to install, then launch from the Dash by searching for ‘Natural Scrolling’ once completed.

You can toggle Natural Scrolling using the Application Indicator present in the top panel. When Natural Scrolling is active a small ‘tick’ will be shown. Click again to disable it.

Note that at the time of writing the ‘Autostart at login’ feature is broken.

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