{"id":53,"date":"2011-10-03T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/03\/adding-natural-scrolling-to-my-ubuntu-laptop\/"},"modified":"2014-03-08T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T23:25:10","slug":"adding-natural-scrolling-to-my-ubuntu-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/2011\/10\/03\/adding-natural-scrolling-to-my-ubuntu-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Natural Scrolling to My Ubuntu Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having a iPhone, iPad, and magic pad on my iMac I have become to prefer natural scrolling when using any trackpad like device.<\/p>\n

To get it to work on my little Acer running Ubuntu I need to add a .Xmodmap file to my home folder with the following line<\/p>\n

pointer= 1 2 3 5 4 7 6 8 9 10 11 12<\/p>\n

So what is this doing?<\/p>\n

The numbers represent the buttons on your mouse.<\/p>\n

1 left button
\n2 right button
\n3 middle button
\n4 scroll up
\n5 scroll down
\n6 scroll left
\n7 scroll right<\/p>\n

So as you can see we have basically just reassigned the scroll button (wheel) assignments.<\/p>\n

There are lots of other things you can modify with the .Xmodmap file. Check out the documentation for all the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having a iPhone, iPad, and magic pad on my iMac I have become to prefer natural scrolling when using any trackpad like device. To get it to work on my little Acer running Ubuntu I need to add a .Xmodmap file to my home folder with the following line pointer= 1 2 3 5 4 … Continue reading Adding Natural Scrolling to My Ubuntu Laptop<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wentztech.com\/metalworking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}