{"id":1319,"date":"2017-01-05T21:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T03:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2017-01-05T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T03:02:25","slug":"natural-scrolling-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2017\/01\/natural-scrolling-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Scrolling Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m going through a bit of a Linux kick lately and one of the things I ended up doing was installing Ubuntu 16.04LTS on my Dell 7370 laptop. Afterwards, I started to get sick of the scrolling with two fingers on the touch pad &#8211; I was pretty used to the &#8220;natural scrolling&#8221; function on the laptops.<\/p>\n<p>All of the guides were pointing me towards opening the Mouse\/Touchpad settings, but there was no checkbox for Natural scroll anywhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>User &#8220;goetzc&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/819662\/how-to-invert-touchpad-scrolling-on-ubuntu-16-04\" target=\"_blank\">askubuntu.com<\/a> pointed me in the right direction:<br \/>\nnano \/usr\/share\/X11\/xorg.conf.d\/50-synaptics.conf<br \/>\nFind the section that says &#8220;Identifier &#8216;touchpad catchall&#8217;<br \/>\nMine now says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Section &#8220;InputClass&#8221;<br \/>\n        Identifier &#8220;touchpad catchall&#8221;<br \/>\n        Driver &#8220;synaptics&#8221;<br \/>\n        MatchIsTouchpad &#8220;on&#8221;<br \/>\n        MatchDevicePath &#8220;\/dev\/input\/event*&#8221;<br \/>\n        Option &#8220;NaturalScrolling&#8221; &#8220;on&#8221;<br \/>\n        Option &#8220;MiddleEmulation&#8221; &#8220;on&#8221;<br \/>\n        Option &#8220;Tapping&#8221; &#8220;on&#8221;<br \/>\n        Option &#8220;DisableWhileTyping&#8221; &#8220;on&#8221;<br \/>\nEndSection<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**EDIT**<br \/>\nI just realized that I couldn&#8217;t see the option in my Mouse settings panel because I had a non-compatible theme running that ruined the visuals of many options. Oh well, live and learn I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m going through a bit of a Linux kick lately and one of the things I ended up doing was installing Ubuntu 16.04LTS on my Dell 7370 laptop. Afterwards, I started to get sick of the scrolling with two fingers on the touch pad &#8211; I was pretty used to the &#8220;natural scrolling&#8221; function &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2017\/01\/natural-scrolling-ubuntu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Natural Scrolling Ubuntu<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}