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I have two-finger scrolling enabled on my touchpad. Moving my fingers up scrolls up and moving them down scrolls down. I would like to have the direction of scrolling inverted, in much the same way the Mac does it. Can I do this? How?

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Just paste 

pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

inside a file named: .Xmodmap and save it to your home folder :) Don't forget to log out and back in

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Thanks. I'd point out to readers that the key thing here is switching 4 and 5 in the order. – jml Apr 11 '12 at 18:39
Thanks, spread the word! – Nicholos Tyler Apr 11 '12 at 21:30
You may also want to switch 6 and 7. Notice that this doesn't work as consistently in 12.04 as it did in 11.10. Some applications (such as nautilus, gedit and the software center) ignore this setting. – Umang May 5 '12 at 23:59

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