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natural scrolling disabled in nautilus in Ubuntu 12.04 unstable

Asked by Xeletron

I came to the conclusion after updates of ubuntu 12.04 on march the 9th, nautilus did not handle natural scrolling anymore, while in Chrome or Firefox or even any other application it still does. I enabled this feature in gnome-tweak and all works fine, except in nautilus.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug. Precise is NOT ready and NOT stable, so you will get issues like this up to and even a few weeks after release.

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Terry (terry-kryogenic) said : 		#2

More to the point, how do you disable this horrible idea of natural scrolling altogether?

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Xeletron (xeletron) said : 		#3

Why is this horrible? If one uses a smartphone the idea of moving the screen 'under your finger' gets a very natural feel. So if one moves his vinger on a touchpad, the brain likes to think the vinger is on the screen. The reason of my question came from the interest of helping in making ubuntu more leading in new or modern technology.

X is prepared for this so why not use it if it is possible. If in ~.Xmodmap 4 and 5 are switched in position natural scrolling occurs vertical. for horizontal switch places of 6 and 7. If one does this all applications except nautilus listen to this change.

And again, i wanted to help in a humble way to let this know!

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Terry (terry-kryogenic) said : 		#4

I just don't like it and I'm sure I'm not the only. Just because Apple do something everything else has to copy? Anyway, if most people like it that way, fine but it should have a user option to restore classic behaviour too. Thanks for the info, though.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

http://maketecheasier.com/reverse-mouse-scrolling-direction-in-ubuntu/2011/09/16

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Terry (terry-kryogenic) said : 		#6

Probably better for me to just go back to Debian. Thanks though, see ya!

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Dražen Lučanin (kermit666) said : 		#7

@actionparsnip - modifying .Xmodmap is what Ubuntu Tweak does as well. The same effect occurs in both cases - some applications behave buggy during scrolling, I asked the same question here before I saw this one:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+question/195222

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