On 10/2/2011 9:36 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > I have gnome 2.32 on Ubuntu Natty 11.04. It has a "feature" that is > driving me crazy enough that I may jump to XFCE or LDX if one of those > will get me away from it. > > In prior versions of Gnome, horizontal and vertical scrolling are > accomplished with the traditional scroll bar, which is adjacent to the > window being scrolled. The scroll bar is always there and runs the > length or height of the window. To use it you click in the scroll bar; > where you click and how determines the result you will get. > > I now see a new scrolling widget in some applications, e.g. evince. > Others (mercifully) don't show it and retain the scroll bar, e.g. > Firefox. The new widget looks like it was designed for mobile phones and > other real estate challenged devices. It is a small disappearing > tab with an up arrow on the top and a down arrow on the bottom (for > vertical scrolling). You can click on the up or down arrow, or grab the > slider and move it appropriately. The new widget is much smaller than > the traditional scroll bar, making it harder to use. > > It also disappears when you aren't using it. Its location is marked by > an even smaller colored blob somewhere along the appropriate edge of the > window. So to use the new widget, you must first locate the color blob, > then slide across it from the window out across the boundary. That > makes the widget show up. Only then can you click appropriately. > > Memo to Linux devs: My desktop and laptop are not real estate > challenged. You do not need to provide me with work-arounds for real > estate challenged devices on my laptop or desktop. All those > work-arounds do is get in my way. This is one of several reasons I > refuse to use Unity (Canonical's brain dead home-brew interface which > replaces Gnome unless you specify it at log-in time). > > My question is, how do I get rid of the new scroll widget, and get all > my apps to use the traditional scroll bar? > It's called an overlay scroll bar, and it IS annoying, but can be disabled one of two ways. You can remove the "overlay-scrollbar" package, or you can run this in a terminal: "echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" | sudo tee /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars > /dev/null". Then just re-log.
Reference from when I did this to my install: http://www.tuxgarage.com/2011/04/disable-overlay-scrollbars-in-ubuntu.html -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
