Questions tagged [scrollbar]
A scrollbar shows how far you are scrolled down the page and allows you to navigate scrolling the page.
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How to make kde scrollbars darker
I'm using ubuntu with awesomewm and kterminal (the kde terminal app).
Whenever I'm using the terminal (or any other app, but specifically the terminal), whenever I wanted to scroll, I find it very ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 change scrollbar width
In Ubuntu 22.04 I have tried to edit the Yaru-blue theme gtk.css file to make the scrollbar wider.
I entered
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Scrollbar versus arrow in FireFox & ThunderBird
I have this problem scrolling in FireFox & ThinderBird: when I click on the scroll-arrow with the left mouse-button, the page scrolls incrementally. If I click on the scrollbar instead, the page ...
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Scrollbar is hard to activate and quite touchy
I've just installed 22.04.1 on a secondhand Lenovo in excellent condition.
In Firefox and LibreOffice, when I position the cursor over the almost invisible bar at the side, it enlarges, indicating it ...
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Is there any way in ubuntu 22.04 to add up/down arrows to all scrollbars (default)?
Background
I wrote this same question up for 18.04.
At that time various people pointed me at a work-around solution at this link.
However, those solutions don't seem to work on Ubuntu 22.04.
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How do I add scrollbar up/down buttons to my scrollbar in all applications?
Old threads cite ubuntu 18.04 as just open your theme's CSS
Well my CSS is only
@import url("resource:///com/ubuntu/themes/Yaru-bark-dark/3.0/gtk.css");
That's it. I think it's downloading ...
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Enhance contrast of Ubuntu Gnome3 scrollbar
I view PDFs a lot and I need to quickly navigate them.
Of course, I am using the scrollbar, but in Ubuntu 20.04 gnome3 the scrollbar handle (the item that you grab with a left click and then move the ...
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Widening Firefox scrollbar
I want to widen the scrollbar on Firefox but the answer I found doesn't give full enough instructions for me. How to remove overlay-scrollbars in Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04?
It says "Put this into ...
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Vertical scrollbars cause frame to strobe and flicker constantly
I recently upgraded Fadein Pro from a 3.x version to 4.0.13. When I open the editing window, it pulls up the screenplay but the page constantly flickers, as if the window is refreshing with and then ...
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Gnome terminal scrollbar - hover changes width & wraps text
I'm using Gnome Terminal (under KDE, but I'm not sure if that's important), and when I hover my mouse over the scrollbar, the scrollbar gets wider and causes the text to wrap. Here's a GIF:
It's like ...
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How to change the color of the scrollbar and slider in Kubuntu 20.4 systemwide
I want to change the colors of my scrollbar and slider systemwide. I already changed the width to my liking, but have no such luck with the colors.
Looked around on this forum and searched for widgets,...
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Updated how to widen scroll bar in Ubuntu [duplicate]
Where might I find recent (within last Ubuntu release) a step by step for VERY newbies on how to widen the scroll bars. I spend too much time trying to hit those mini-wide scroll bars.
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Make mouse click on right edge of screen act on scroll bar
In firefox, if I move my mouse to extreme right of the screen and do left click, the scroll bar will respond to this click. But this function does not hold for all applications. Is there any possible ...
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Terminal, Nautilus, FF and some other applications have a very narrow scrollbar. How can I expand it?
Terminal, Nautilus, FF and some other applications have a very narrow scrollbar. It is difficult to catch on with the mouse. How can I expand it? I have ubuntu on 20.04.
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how do I set the width of the xterm scrollbar
I'm running ubuntu 20.04. I've just obtained a new laptop with very high resolution (3840x2400) and so my xterm windows are tiny by default. I can increase the font size to compensate for the ...
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Mailspring scroll not working on Ubuntu 18.04
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 on Dell Vostro 15 - 3546. Recently I installed Mailspring through the snap store. The scrolling bar on the right doesn't work unless I use an external mouse and use the ...
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Removing/Hiding scroll bars in Ubuntu applications
I'm new to Ubuntu, coming from Mac OS. I love it so far, except for the very visible scrollbars on some of the programs I use. For instance, I'm using Notion daily, which looks like this on a mac:
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Ubuntu 20 application menu scrolling issue
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS , everything seemed to function normally initially for 2 days.
But now the application menu is stuck, and i cant scroll there. Although I can access any application from ...
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In Firefox 76, how do I enable scrollbar auto-hiding?
On Ubuntu 20.04 with a Gnome desktop, how do I instruct Firefox 76 to automatically hide the vertical scrollbar when inactive?
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Adding scrollbar arrows to Adwaita (default) on GTK2 apps
I am using Ubuntu 22.10 Desktop. I have only the default themes installed on my system. Currently, I am using Adwaita (default) which does not have arrows at the two ends of vertical or horizontal ...
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Scrollbar width in Qt applications
I have made the scrollbar width for Gtk applications wider,
Create a file called ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
Containing scrollbar slider { /* size of the slider / min-width:
20px; min-height: ...
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Is there any way in ubuntu 18.04 to add up/down arrows to all scrollbars (default)?
I would like to add up and down arrows to my scrollbars in Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.
If you are on any page that has a lot of length then it is impossible to grab the scrollbar thumb-wheel and move with ...
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Extra padding on right of the scrollbar on gnome terminal when in vanilla session
I'm on Ubuntu 19.10. Installed vanilla-gnome-session for default gnome experience. But the problem is the terminal windows has this extra spaces at the right side of scrollbar in adwaita theme. Yaru ...
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Adjust the scrollbars in evolution mail client
I am using the evolution mail client to interact with my work's exchange server. The scrollbar in the client is extremely frustrating, however, because it is small, hard to click, and changes when ...
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How do I add a scrollbar to a Rofi theme?
OS: 18.04
man rofi describes rofi as
A window switcher, application launcher, ssh dialog and dmenu
replacement
There are twenty-five themes to choose from in /usr/share/rofi/themes by running ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 ignores my gtk.css file
In Ubuntu 16.04, I created a file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css to replace the skinny scrollbar (on both firefox and emacs) that widens when you hover with one that is always wide, change the color of the ...
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How do I make the FreeOffice interface look like the official screenshots?
On my Ubuntu Mate 18.04, the FreeOffice interface (mainly the scrollbars) is somewhat Windows-y/Wine-y.
How do I make it look like the official screenshots?
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Glitch Geany in Ubuntu 18.04, scroll bar, how to solve it?
I have glitch in Geany (version 1.32), Ubuntu 18.04. The scroll bars become completely orange over the entire width (or height), and this makes it difficult to use for its intended purpose.
Is it ...
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How to disable resize window on its right side?
When I have a window at the right of my screen and I try to drag the scroll bar to navigate with it, sometimes I get the resize option, instead of the scrollbar, because I go too much to the right of ...
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How do I get real scrollbars back?
I despise these invisible scrollbars that don't exist until you hover over them and don't show you where you are on the page:
They are horrible to use over remote desktop.
How do I get real ...
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Ubuntu Firefox: Scrollbar is not visible while reading pdf
While reading pdf in Ubuntu Firefox browser, scrollbar is not visible. Since it is not visible, it is difficult to scroll from current location. If I try to click invisible scrollbar, current ...
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How can I keep the terminal output always at the beginning?
I have large output from a python script that clear the terminal and print again, but the scrollbar of terminal always is in the bottom.
Is it possible to fix the scrollbar to the top so I could ...
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gnome terminal scrollbar missing Ubuntu 18.10 upgrade
Just upgraded from a full install of 18.04 to 18.10 via do-dist-upgrade
There are no scrollbars in Gnome terminal. More than one screenful of text is present. Enabling/disabling scrollbar (repeatedly ...
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How to make gnome-terminal scroll one page when clicking on the right scrollbar?
When clicking on an area of the right scrollbar of gnome-terminal which is not the scroll bar/thumb it jumps to the relative position of the output (I enabled unlimited output).
Some applications ...
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How to Increase the width of Vertical and Horizontal Scroll Bars in Ubuntu 18.04 LibreOffice
The vertical and horizontal scroll bars in the Calc and Writer applications are too thin. Because of this I often open the Side Bar Settings Area by mistake; or aim-and-click 4 to 5 times to lock my ...
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synaptics touchpad not working properly in Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
I am new to Linux the first thing which is bothering me is I can't use scroll down on my touch pad I have to drag the scroll bar manually.
If anyone can help me
its a synaptics touchpad
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No up or down arrows on vertical scrollbar with Libreoffice write in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I'm trying to work on a document in Libreoffice and there are no up or down arrows in the vertical scroll sidebar. This makes it hard to move up or down in the document. How do I get the up and down ...
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Scroll Bar Way Too Narrow :(
I just installed Ubuntu 17.10 and my scroll bars are WAY to narrow. I can barely grab them with my mouse. The scroll bar in LibreOffice and Firefox is so small I can barely grab it.
I have searched ...
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tiny selection elements in firefox
I am using Firefox 57.0.1 in Ubuntu 17.10 (with Radiance Appearance) and it shows tiny selection elements and scrollbars.
I have tried to set GtkRange::slider-width in /usr/share/themes/Radiance, but ...
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Tweaking scrollbar behavior in Gtk3 (gtk-primary-button-warps-slider)
I am trying to create a theme for Xubuntu 17.04 (see/test here) that looks as consistent as possible across Gtk2, Gtk3, Qt4, Qt5, and wxWidgets applications (i personally find Adwaita unusable, no ...
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In Lubuntu, how can I make the default-theme scroll bars thicker?
I use Lubuntu 17.04 (zesty). I'm somewhat annoyed by how the window scroll bars are super-thin, and I often miss them or take too much time to press them.
Is there a (reasonably simple) way to make ...
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How to change KDE Plasma scrollbar width?
How can I change the scrollbar width in KDE Plasma 5.9.4 on Ubuntu 17.04?
The Application Style dialog box no longer contains this setting.
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Why are gtk-3.0 custom settings ignored?
Since Firefox was updated to version 52 on Ubuntu, I started to notice an annoying problem with too thin scroll bars:
I was able to find a would be solution to this issue: to create a file ~/.config/...
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How to change icon in the scroll bar?
I have a shortcut in the scroll bar:
As you can see, the icon is a question mark (marked in black circle). This icon represents a shortcut to a software I use. I want to change the image to an svg ...
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Terminal can't scroll after overnight idle computing
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, using ubuntu terminal, running zsh with oh-my-zsh.
I'm on a ssh session to a remote computer with the same configuration.
I launched a big computing and forgot to output the ...
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I just updated from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and I'm having a problem with scrolling
I just updated from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and I'm having a problem with scrolling.
The problem is the mouse click to scroll a page at a time has swapped from the old left click to page up down to ...
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16.04 Can I get the old Unity thumb overlay scrollbar back?
Some people are hating the old overlay scrollbar, but I really like it as it gives me a good area to drag the scrollbar. The new thicker strip scrollbar is thinner than that on Windows and I find it ...
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scrollbar Issue in Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop
I have a scroll bar issue. There's a tiny pixel of margin to the right of the scroll bar, whenever I click on the scrollbar (on that margin) anywhere but not in the middle of it. The bar moves to ...
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Ubuntu 16.10 scrollbar width
After updating to 16.10 the scrollbar size in all application increased. I am really used to idea of having 2px scrollbars. Is there a way for me to decrease the width of the new scrollbars?
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GTK3 apps looks poor, cant use installed themes in Gnome 3.20
I had some troubles after install Gnome 3.20, like GTK3 apps desabled scrollbars, and theming. I cant use the Zuki, Arc or Vertex theme, even the 3.20 versions of it. Sorry for my bad english, and ...
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