Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

Disable Natural Scrolling With a Script

I guess it’s a sign of my age. But I can’t stand that whole natural scrolling thing. So I disable it as a part of my imaging process. To do so, set the com.apple.swipescrolldirection global domain to false using defaults, as follows:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool false

To set it back:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool true