Ubuntu GNome 13.10 - Revert scroll bars to the old way

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Mon Mar 10 21:32:12 UTC 2014


On 03/10/2014 04:27 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 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

I just realized you said Ubuntu GNome.  Unsettings is for Unity so it 
may not work for you.

Sorry,  Jim






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