Get your Mac Back: Fix OS X Lion scrolling
Apple has released a big new desktop operating system update and the complaints have reached a fever pitch in recent days. Fortunately, many of things users dislike can be changed and the fixes are generally quite easy — here’s how to make OS X scrolling more like it was.
Mac OS X Lion’s disappearing scrollbar have caused consternation among some users. However, as shown in the graphic above, it’s pretty easy to make them visible again.
Go to System Preferences > General and choose the setting that makes sense to you.
Wired mice are harder to throw…
There’s wisdom in the words, “get ‘em when they’re pups” as children that learn good habits will carry them the rest of their lives. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true and, although I understand Apple’s desire to change the way we scroll (which is technically backwards), it feels wrong.
On the iPad and iPhone, it’s right. However, this old dog does it wrong and probably will until the mothership takes the option away.
In the mean time, you and I can turn off Apple’s patently unnatural “natural scrolling.” Go to System Preferences > Mouse and uncheck the box.
Know a handy Mac OS X Lion tip or trick?
The more I use natural scrolling, the better I like it. With trackpads and gestures becoming the norm, it really is the correct way. Now my PC at work feels “wrong”.
Change is scary! Help!
No, really, it is better, and more natural, and matches your iOS scrolling. Give it a minute before “fixing” it. (which, by the way is quite a presumptuous title. Many don’t think it’s broken)
Being a Mac user for 22 years and trackpad user for at least 10 years, changes can be difficult. Surprisingly I found it very comfortable to switch. Now scrolling feels more natural and I’m very happy with it. I just wish Apple (and others) got it “right” 10 years ago.
As I don’t use iOS and don’t intend to, “natural” scrolling is unimportant to me. Perceptually, scrolling the background only makes sense on a tiny screen, where there’s no room to scroll the cursor. Using a real computer, scrolling the cursor is more natural — and that means scrolling as we’ve always done it.
When the bell rings, all you retrained users get a food pellet as a reward.
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