In a fresh Ubuntu installation, one thing I would like to do is to turn off the overlay scrollbars instead using the old scrolling bars. Overlay Scrollbars feature comes with Unity since Ubuntu 11.04.
I found three ways to easily turn off the overlay scrollbars. All the ways need to log out and log back to take effect. Please feel free to leave a comment if you have a new method.
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Ayatana Scrollbars use an overlay to ensure that scrollbars take up no active screen real-estate. A thumb appears magically when the pointer is in proximity to the scrollbar, for easy desktop-style paging and dragging.
The Ayatana initiative, lead by Canonical, is about designing for a more focused desktop experience.
After a fresh installed Ubuntu, one thing to do is configuring your music player. In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise LTS, if you use other music player to instead the default Rhythmbox, here’s a way to remove Rhythmbox controls from the sound indicator.
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With the new Ubuntu 11.04, the scrollbars in almost all applications and windows look radically different than those we grew accustomed with. Here’s how to revert them to the old looks:
sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar
sudo su
echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars
Awesome job! I'll tell you I really expected an orange bar in the middle of the blueish theme I have, but luckily that was not the case Anyway, I think I made it work in my setup with only gtk2-ubuntu and liboverlay-scrollbar. I'm running an XFCE desktop. I first installed gtk2-overlay-scrollbar, then I tried with liboverlay-scrollbar but asked me for gtk2-ubuntu.
Ubuntu desktop edition by default auto-mount removable media connected via usb port. This tutorial shows how to disable usb auto-mount feature on Ubuntu 11.10, 12.04 and higher.
1. Install dconf-editor by searching dconf-tools in Software Center.
2. Launch dconf-editor and navigate to org -> gnome -> desktop -> media-handling
3. The automount key controls whether to automatically mount media.
This simple tutorial is going to show you how to enable advanced file permissions dialog in Ubuntu 12.04. So that you can set file permissions based on Unix permission model (rwx, rwx, rwx). It also allows to Set User ID, Set Group ID and Sticky in Nautilus.
To get started:
Search for and install dconf Editor in Ubuntu Software Center.
I sometimes open large files with dozens of pages of text in them. However, often I find that I drag the overlay scrollbar to the top or to the bottom of the window, but I am nowhere near the beginning or the end of the document.
Currently to finish scrolling I either:
a) click the scroll button 50 times to go page by page.
I know many people have complained about the almost invisible and not usable scrollbars in recent versions of Ubuntu, even after removing or disabling the default overlay scrollbars. I wonder how can I easily change their color AND width.
I have a 13.3 inches monitor with a 1600*900 resolution and I can barely see them.
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