Raspberry Pi OS • Re: labwc Mouse Natural Scroll SOLVED

It looks like they are still tweaking labwc in the images. The latest images I have tried have no /labwc directory in ~/.config, so no rc.xml there.

I searched and found several different rc.xml files on my Pi5. The one in /usr/share/labwc/ looks the same as your skeleton file, with the addition of a "keyboard" section. So i...

- Created the directory
mkdir~/.config/labwc.
- Copied rc.xml to new directory
cp /usr/share/labwc/rc.xml ~/.config/labwc/rc.xml.
- Edited to add the following "libinput" section after the "keyboard" section but before </openbox_config>
nano ~/.config/labwc/rc.xml

<libinput>
<device category="default">
<naturalScroll>yes</naturalScroll>l
</device>
</libinput>

This works fine (after a reboot). The "libinput" section above enables natural scroll using this scenario.

I suspect I could have just edited the /usr/share/labwc/rc.xml file in place rather than creating the new directory, copying rc.xml and editing the copy, but wasn't brave enough to try that.

I would be a bunch easier if there was a "Natural Scroll" button or checkbox in mouse prefs, but not near as much exercise for these 80+ year old gray cells!.

Statistics: Posted by lhaddock — Tue Nov 12, 2024 7:43 pm

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