James McDonald
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| Invert mouse scroll wheel in Debian | james | post | 2011-07-21T11:49:01+00:00 | /2011/07/invert-mouse-scroll-wheel-in-debian/ |
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I’ve been using the beta of MacOS X Lion for a few weeks now, and after a few days of initial annoyance I’ve grown to really like the inverted sense of the scroll wheel. I recall when I first got one, in fact, and found the direction downright confusing. This seems to have been an easy behaviour to unlearn.
My desktop box at work runs Debian, and I wanted the same behaviour there to stop me getting split-brain and dribbling a lot. There was a time when a quick change in xorg.conf to ZAxisMapping "5 4" would do this, but it’s not so the modern age of HIDs and evdevs. After a bit of messing about I figured out how to flip the scroll wheel. This will probably work for Ubuntu too.
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Open the file
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf -
Look for the section with
MatchIsPointer "on". It’s at the top by default. -
Add this line:
`Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8"
` Add more buttons if you need them for your mouse. The section should look like:
`<br />
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8"
EndSection
`
That’s it! Just restart X.