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Get Natural

This is how I get natural mouse scrolling in a MATE desktop environment (Parrot OS). It should work with any X11 window manager.

So far, I haven't found a way to permanently configure it. It basically finds any device that seems to have a natural scrolling property and turns it on.

I currently run the script from .bashrc, and whenever things start going the wrong direction I open a terminal.

get-natural.sh

#!/bin/bash

device_ids=$(xinput -list | grep -i 'pointer' | grep -o id=[0-9]. | grep -o [0-9].)

for device_id in ${device_ids[@]}
do
    prop_id=`xinput list-props ${device_id} | grep -i "Natural Scrolling Enabled" | grep -Po '(?<=\().*(?=\))' | head -1`
    if [ "${prop_id}" ]; then$
        xinput set-prop ${device_id} ${prop_id} 1
    fi
done