#Scroll reverser not opening at startup update
#Scroll reverser not opening at startup code

5Īnd so, it’s almost 2021 and Scroll Reverser will be 10 years old in a couple of months. I also received language localizations from many contributors.

Mainly this involved adding support for each new version of OS X and investigating and solving lots of little weird edge cases and compatibility issues. Now, people could have natural scrolling on their old hardware.Īs the years went on, I mainly focused on my other apps (which are how I make my living), but every now and again I would be pulled back to Scroll Reverser. I also backported Scroll Reverser to work on PowerPC Macs, and on OS X 10.4 Tiger. People wanted to run it on Lion to reverse their trackpad but not their mouse. Pretty soon, I started getting emails from people suggesting new features. I even got my first and only mention on Daring Fireball. Countless Mac websites and forum posts started linking to my Scroll Reverser blog post, and the first week of downloads was in the tens of thousands. To my surprise, Scroll Reverser became an instant hit.

#Scroll reverser not opening at startup code

Rather than fight the rejection, I decided to cut my losses and simply posted it to my blog 3 that day as a free download, with the source code on GitHub. I called it Scroll Reverser, submitted it to Mac App Store and it was promptly rejected. So I decided to put together a tiny little app for my 10.6 Mac to achieve natural scrolling. The problem was, it was jarring to switch between natural scrolling on my Lion test machine and classic scrolling my main machine, running Snow Leopard. I thought natural scrolling with a trackpad was pretty cool - it made sense to me right away and I wanted to try it out. It was the first time any of us had encountered natural scrolling on the Mac. In February 2011, Apple released the first developer preview of OS X 10.7 Lion to the world. When I first wrote Scroll Reverser, almost 10 years ago, I never expected I would still be working on it today. 1 Scroll Reverser's fancy new permissions guidance UI. We all love interacting with the macOS Privacy interface in System Preferences, and now Scroll Reverser guides you helpfully as to what permissions you need to grant. There’s also an exciting new part of the user interface all about permissions. While I was at it, I took the opportunity to add support for Dark Mode and native Apple Silicon.

#Scroll reverser not opening at startup update

This was its first proper update in 3 years, and features proper Big Sur support, as well as well as fixing a long-standing problem with crashing at startup when lacking required permissions in Mojave and Catalina. Last week, I released Scroll Reverser version 1.8.