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.
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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I share with you a fix to a longstanding issue I have had with the Unity Desktop in Ubuntu Linux 12.04
I got fed-up with the Unity Desktop's "overlay" scrollbars, and found a way to globally disable them.
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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.
From a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install I tried multiple desktops, and settled on KDE. One problem I have with it is how scrollbars are displayed in Thunderbird:
In Gimp, Dolphin, Firefox there are completely normal scrollbars. I checked on unity and this didn't happen there.
How do I change this?
I know many people have complained about the almost invisible and not usable scrollbars in recent versions of Ubuntu. 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. I already changed Firefox, LibreOffice and some other software's scrollbars using GNOME Color Chooser.
By the way, I'm using Unity. Thanks!
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
With the last updates in Ubuntu 12.04 at least two new GUI in QT for existing applications are landed: Ubuntu One Control Panel, and Checkbox (the system testing tool).
These new GUIs are pretty good, but they don't include the Ayatana scrollbars like the other GTK applications.
I wonder if it is planned to apply the Ayatana scrollbars also for the QT GUI, or not.
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.
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