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endolith
Asked: 2019-03-09 09:11:17 +0800 CST

How do I get real scrollbars back?

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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:

Horrible invisible scroll bars

They are horrible to use over remote desktop.

How do I get real scrollbars? I'm using Mate desktop in Ubuntu 18.04

scrollbar scrolling mate ubuntu-mate

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  1. Best Answer

    Such behavior is expected if you have installed special overlay scrollbar packages.

    Remove them with

    sudo apt purge overlay-scrollbar overlay-scrollbar-gtk2

    and then restart the application.

    Below is a comparison of look-and-feel:

    • with overlay-scrollbars

      with <code>overlay-scrollbar</code>

    • without overlay-scrollbars

      without <code>overlay-scrollbar</code>

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