[SOLVED] Inverse scrolling?

Wonderful distro; I’m hooked! I have one remaining tweak needed before I can really settle in: I can’t figure out how to reverse the direction of touchpad scrolling. Tips appreciated.

I agree there should be a graphical option for this added to MATE.

You should be able to modify your synaptics settings to make the change, with a little trial an error. The Arch wiki is pretty detailed on synaptics: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics.

For inverted scrolling, you need to set negative values for the VertScrollDelta and HorizScrollDelta options. The exact values depend on your trackpad.

You can use synclient to set the values for testing, but it won’t persist when you reboot, so you either need to make a startup script that runs synclient or make your changes to a configuration file.

(I personally haven’t done this for Ubuntu MATE, but have previously with other distros.)

Thank you. I’m a newish linux user and was hoping for an easier solution, but this seems clear enough. I hope it’s not cheating to mark this “solved” even though I am not actually going to deal with learning how to make a startup script right now! +1 vote for a graphical tool for this.