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Thorsten Niehues
Asked: 2018-08-19 10:24:53 +0800 CST

How to enable natural scrolling in Ubuntu 18.04.1 with Unity

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I'm still in the process of evaluating Unity vs Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04.1

In Unity I noticed that there is no setting for natural scrolling.

In the dconf-editor natural scrolling is set to on.

But it is not scrolling traditionally - how to fix this?

unity scrolling 18.04

2 Answers

  1. Linked post explains how to set another property of touchpad, so for clarity I'll write it down here:

    # First find number of your touchpad device
xinput list

# then get list of its properties and get number of "Natural Scrolling Enabled"
xinput list-props device_number

# finally set the property to 1 (true)
xinput set-prop device_number prop_number 1
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  2. Install Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server:

    sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-hwe-18.04

    and re-login.

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