Sun 11 Nov 2012
Disabling reverse (natural) scrolling in Ubuntu 12.10
Posted by Prakash under Linux
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After installing Ubuntu 12.10, the first thing I wanted to do, was to disable reverse scrolling – you scroll down and it scrolls up! This is also called natural scrolling by Apple. Don’t know what is natural about it 🙂 but may be natural for Apple users.
Open the terminal and edit this file using any editor and edit the .Xmodmap in your home directory for example:
 gedit .Xmodmap
Here you would seet his:
pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
You would note that in the sequence of numbers 5 and 4 are interchanged. Change it back to the sequence..
pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Now you are done, logging out and in should do the job.
If you have Ubuntu Tweak installed. Just go to Tweaks-Miscellaneous and you would see an option to toggle Natural Scrolling on/off.