Hi, Ronni, Thanks for the reply. My System Preference is set for 'always' for the scrolll bars. It is not the scroll bar that is absent, but the pair of little pointer icons, 1 up and 1 down that we used to have, either both on one end of the scroll bar track or one at the top and one at the bottom. I don't know their proper name.
I often have the task of navigating around a very large image in zoomed-in mode, and also very large pdf files. Dragging or clicking the scroll bar causes huge jumps, with no quick and easy way to get back to your starting point. Another thought: are there any 3rd-party hacks that can add the little pointers? Scrolling through windows has another nasty little habit: when you search for an item and get a whole windowful, then clicking on something that looks promising but turns out to be the wrong thing, then the whole window and all its icons resets itself to the very top. So you have to navigate again through all the items to find where you left off. Again, maybe slightly trivial, but irritating and time-wasting. Cheers, Pat On 11/06/2013, at 2:23 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Pat, > > OS X Mavericks (10.9) > <http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/> > =================== > Configuring OS X Lion / Mountain Lion Scroll Bars > > You don't have to live with Lion / Mountain Lion's scroll bar defaults; you > can change them to meet your needs or preferences. > > Launch System Preferences. > > Once the System Preferences window opens, select the General preference pane. > > The middle section of the General preference pane controls when scroll bars > appear and a few additional scroll bar options. > > To return the scroll bars to their pre-Lion functionality, select "Always" > from the Show Scroll Bars options. > The scroll bars will now always be visible, even when you're not scrolling. > > You can quit System Preferences, and no longer have to worry about just where > you are when you're browsing a document. > > Cheers, > > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > > On 11/06/2013, at 1:43 PM, Pat <clamsh...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> I hope, most fervently, that Apple has returned the scrolling pointers to >> the scroll bar. Their absence makes so many tasks frustrating, irritating, >> annoying and time-wasting. I have made a vow to myself not to buy any new OS >> that does not have them. >> >> They are seemingly small things, but their value is immense. >> >> Please, Apple………..? >> >> Pat > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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