Intellij reverses system scrolling setting (but only vertically)
IntelliJ seems to reverse whatever settings I have in my OS (ubuntu 16.04) for scrolling. At first i had natural scrolling enabled in the OS, so everything scrolled naturally except Idea. Since the inconsistency was driving me mad and I couldnt find a way to change IntelliJ's behaviour, I opted to disable natural scrolling in the OS to have everything scroll the same, but now Intellij seems to use natural scrolling (though, only vertically, not horizontally) while the rest of the OS does not scroll "naturally".
It seems whatever I do IntelliJ scrolls the opposite of the rest of my system, and even more frustatingly, scrolling horizontally behaves the same way the OS does, but vertical does not, so scrolling is inconsistent even inside IntelliJ!
Please help I'm getting lost in my code, and also motion-sick from this weird behavior!
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Have you changed the default Keymap (Settings | Keymap)? Do you use mouse or touchpad? How do you configure it in the OS? Could it be that the scrolling is configured not for all the applications?
Try also starting IDE with defaults (rename/remove settings folders).
i use a trackpad on ubuntu 16.04, with intelliJ 2018.2.5. renaming the settingsfolder did not help with this issue (but it did remove all my theme settings, so as to verify I renamed the correct folder)
I've configured the scrolling via the GUI in the default system settings app in ubuntu.
any ideas?
There was one similar report: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-153559 but it turned out to be an OS configuration problem. Please check that you have configured the scrolling for all the applications. Try e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/746177/how-to-make-natural-scrolling-work-in-all-applications
ah you're right! sorry to have bothered you with this. i tried a new DE recently which led to duplicate configuratoins, Removing the .Xmodmap file from my homefolder helped, in case anyone else is reading this thread with a similar problem