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joschi
Asked: 2013-01-09 08:02:40 +0800 CST

Scrollbars when root user

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When I open an application as root I get gnome2-like scrollbars which is fine.

But:

  1. the small arrows at top and bottom of the scrollbars are missing.
  2. the function of clicking between arrow and slider of the scrollbar to "scroll" down one page is also missing, it just jumps to the position of the cursor (making it really hard to scroll through huge list like in Synaptic).

scrollbars as root user

Is there any way to resolve these issues? Can't they look like in Firefox for example?

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1 Answers

  1. I don't have a complete answer as I cannot find it in my backups. But I spent about 4 hours trying to remember how I did it last time. So in 2 areas changes are needed. Basically it breaks down to the theme you are using (i.e. mine is Ambiance) and making edits to File /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css and /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc for the root access and /home/USER/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css for the USER access.

    In gtk-widgets.css I changed the scrollbar section to have the following and the same is in ~.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

    /*************
* scrollbar *
*************/
.scrollbar,
.scrollbar.vertical {
    -GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: 1;
    -GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: 1;
    -GtkRange-slider-width: 16;
    -GtkRange-stepper-size: 16;
    -GtkRange-stepper-spacing: 0;
    -GtkRange-trough-border: 0;
    -GtkScrollbar-min-slider-length: 30;

    The next edit maybe different if you are not using the same engine I have for the Gnome-flashback login that gives me Metacity? Find the section in /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc that has sub section engine "murrine" {
    bellow the style "default" { section and change:

    engine "murrine" {
    ... other declarations
    stepperstyle = 3
    to

    stepperstyle = 0

    I believe The last line gives the even step scrolling down the page as opposed to jumping to the pointer or it just turns off the overlay-scrollbars? I have not figured out how to do this for something like synaptic.

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