![]() I embrace the trackpad change because it makes sense to anyone who uses an iPhone or iPad (and I use both) but I'm not willing to rewire my brain's way of using the mouse. I don't want to change a decades-old habit with the mouse, just because Apple changed their idea of how a trackpad should work. The idea that Apple treats these as the same thing, when they are conceptually completely different is very odd to me. On the other hand, I'm perfectly willing to use Apple's "natural" scrolling for trackpads, because the metaphor here is that you're moving your fingers across a page, just as if you were using an iOS device's touchscreen. This is, in my opinion, the most natural way to do things, even though it is the opposite of what Apple calls "natural". Mice have had scroll wheels for decades, and the direction of the wheel turning has always been in sync with the motion of the scrollbar. ![]() e.g. Features: Simple Modifications: Map normal keys to arbitrary key functions Complex Modifications: Map keys by complex rules. (In case you can't understand the rationale for wanting them different, and think this is a ridiculous question, here is the reasoning. Karabiner Elements (earlier was Karabiner, and even earlier was KeyRemap4MacBook) is powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS. How can you have different settings for mouse and trackpad? The problem is that this also unsets the setting for Trackpad, which I do like. In System Preferences > Mouse there's a setting "Scroll direction: natural", which I don't like, so I unset. Setup Karabiner: Download Karabiner When opening it requires to enable some stuff in the Settings (just follow the steps it requests from you) Set up the Script: Create a JSON file on your desktop: cmd + space to open the spotlight type in terminal type in cd type in cd desktop touch myscript.
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