How to change rolling direction of trackpad?

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The system throws the ball back at me and tells me to do it myself in something called compositor, which is not found neither in applications nor in any file search I did. What is compositor? Or kanshi, behind which some other settings are hidden?

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Open a terminal, and run mkdir ~/.config/labwc. Then run featherpad ~/.config/labwc/rc.xml, and in the text editor window, place the following text:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<labwc_config>
  <libinput>
    <device category="default">
      <naturalScroll>yes</naturalScroll>
    </device>
  </libinput>
</labwc_config>

Save the file, then close the FeatherPad window. Back in the terminal, run labwc --reconfigure. Your scrolling direction should now be reversed. More info about configuring labwc can be found here:

You have a bunch of graphical applications you run (web browsers, file managers, text editors, etc.). Each of those applications have to display their user interface at the same time as other applications. Only one application can draw pixels on the screen at once though, so you have a “master” application that handles all of the real pixel drawing, then all of the applications you interact with directly talk to that “master” application and provide it the pixels those applications want drawn. That “master” application is a “Wayland compositor”, or simply a “compositor”. There are lots of Wayland compositors out there; the one Kicksecure includes is called “labwc”. There are some other jobs the compositor does, like displaying the title bar and borders for many apps, and forwarding your keyboard and mouse actions to the appropriate apps.

If you research it online, you may find “Wayland” being contrasted with a thing called X11. X11 is basically an older implementation of the same concept (one master program that allows multiple other programs to draw pixels at the same time).

Kanshi is for configuring displays (i.e. setting their resolution and telling the system where each display is in relation to the others in a multiple-monitor scenario). See:

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It worked. Magic. Wonderful to to see things rolling to right direction, at least in this window…after thereconfigurationon the bigger one starts the rolling direction on screen might seem less of a problem. Much obliged also for the detailed explanation and links you provided :slight_smile:

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