Mice and Pointing Devices

[one321]

Does anyone know of a solution to keep Mac OS X Lion's natural scrolling for the trackpad but at the same time reverse it (make it normal) for a mouse wheel? I would love it if Logitech Control Center would implement this feature!

[colman]

I am extremely interested in this as well.

The new scrolling direction is very intuitive to me with fingertips on a trackpad, but extremely UNintuitive on my peripheral pointer device's scroll wheel.  I use a Wireless Trackball M570.

Please get this configurable in the Logitech Control Center for this ASAP!!!

[Tejas]

Go to System Preferences > Mouse…

Uncheck "Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating"

[Tejas]

Go to System Preferences > Mouse…

Uncheck "Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating"

[one321]

Tejas has missed the whole point. It's not to disable Natural Scrolling altogether, it's to keep it with the Apple Trackpad while at the same time making it normal/traditional scrolling with a Logitech mouse wheel.

[colman]

Yes, we appreciate your suggestion Tejas, but this doesn't address the concern we have.

[Concatenation]

No, I'm happy to report that Tejas is right: if you do this in the mouse System Pref., the wheel gets reversed and the track pad continues to scroll naturally.

[one321]

Tejas and Concatenation, can you please verify that what you are telling us is correct? I'm not seeing the same results as you. I modified the mouse settings like you said, but it's still affecting the mouse and trackpad scrolling in the same way. I'm still not able to make the trackpad push the page up (aka scroll down) while at the same time the mouse scrolls the page down.

[rmadd1]

Great Post tejas, worked like it is supposed to. thanks

[colman]

When I toggle the System Preferences > Mouse setting "Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating", it changes direction for BOTH mouse AND trackpad at the same time.  I want to specify their direction of scrolling independently of each other.

Thus, the solution Tejas provides does not accomplish my goal.

[willard3]

Download the Scroll Reverser program and fiddle with it until you have what you want...you can reverse the mouse and trackpad separately.

If you make sure natural scrolling is checked in System Preferences, then in the Scroll Reverser menu, check "Reverse Scrolling", and under the Preferences sub-menu, check everything EXCEPT "Reverse Trackpad."

Works like a charm.