Ubuntu GNome 13.10 - Revert scroll bars to the old way

[Jim Byrnes]

On 03/10/2014 03:42 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>      Just reinstall Ubuntu Gnome. Previously I would just upgrade from
> one release to the next; but it was time to just reinstall.
>      Somewhere along the way, the scrollbar behavior has changed, and I
> can't find out how to get it back.
>
>      Now, the scroll arrows are MIA, and when I click on an are of the
> scroll bar, it jumps right to that position instead of scrolling a page
> at a time in that direction.
>
>      DCONF editor didn't' seem to hold the answer either....
>

You don't say what version of Ubuntu you are using, but on 13.10 I found 
that the program Unsettings will turn off the overlay scrollbars.

Here is a link to the authors webpage:

http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/unsettings/

Regards,  Jim