Natural scrolling does not work in gnome

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I am using GNOME Shell 3.22.0 on nixos, and trying to enable natural scrolling for my mouse's scroll wheel.

Under settings, there is a 'natural scrolling' option, as shown in this screenshot

My mouse wheel scrolls in the same (non-natural) direction whether natural scrolling here is selected to be on or off.

How can I enable natural scrolling? Do I need to report this to gnome (or nixos) somehow as a bug?

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I faced the same issue. I had xserver-xorg-input-synaptics installed. I uninstalled it and the problem was solved. After uninstalling, the natural scrolling button works properly.

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Looks to me like your "quick" scrolling is exceeding the scroll delta.

At any rate, I also have a Magic Trackpad on Ubuntu 12. I simply swapped the ZAxisMapping buttons to get natural scrolling.

Detailed instructions on the Ubuntu Wiki.

TL;DR:

Use xev to find the "swipe up" and "swipe down" buttons for your trackpad. Put them in reverse order in xorg.conf.

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This option can be configured (for trackballs only) using the scroll-wheel-emulation-button setting. By default this is set to 0, meaning that no button will turn the trackball into a scroll wheel. I experimented with a few different mouse buttons and found that button 5 was the most convenient for scrolling on my trackball:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.trackball scroll-wheel-emulation-button 5

This worked immediately, without needing to reboot or restart my GNOME session, in GNOME Shell 3.36. The feature was added in GNOME 3.16 (March 2015).

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