Guild Wars 2

I have a fairly new imac 27" running OS X 10.7.5 and have a non-apple mouse attached. I’ve used OS X before and was well familiar with it prior to this version.

The first thing I noticed was that the mouse-wheel scrolling direction was … backwards. Evidently, in this version of OS X, Apple has reversed the direction of wheel scrolling to better match the UI effects of touch surfaces such as the iphone and ipad. This means that when I rotate the scroll wheel towards my hand, the content of a window moves down, and thus the viewing area and scroll control on the window moves up. It also means that in-game zoom is backwards. The motion which on a PC and older OS X’s would zoom in, zooms out instead, and vice-versa.

I suppose some people might prefer this, but I don’t, and I suspect others would agree with me.

I found a utility called “Scroll Reverser” which adeptly changes this behavior on OS X, and it’s run flawlessly so far. Others who want to try this utility can find it by searching for “Scroll Reverser for Mac OS X”.

There’s a setting in System Preferences > Mouse

I don’t have my Mac with me currently or I’d tell you the exact checkbox, but look for something that says “Use Natural Scrolling” or something like that. Basically that checkbox will do what that scroll reverser thing is doing systemwide.

No special apps required for this, just change it in the system prefs.

http://www.informationweek.com/byte/personal-tech/desktop-operating-systems/how-to-reverse-scrolling-direction-in-os/231400200