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Pandya
Asked: 2014-10-20 06:40:02 +0800 CST

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"

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I am using Xubuntu 14.04 (Ubuntu + xubuntu-desktop), The following Message shown many times (such as executing mousepad , zenity etc).

$ mousepad
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
pandya@pandya-desktop:~$ zenity --info
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"

Why I am getting this message? How to solve?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    After installing xubuntu-desktop, I've removed some packages that are pre-installed in Ubuntu 14.04 (and no longer required) by this command.

    These packages removed successfully and all working fine but some residual config are still exist and hence I removed unity-scrollbar from synaptic residual config:

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    Which removed files like: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/81overlay-scrollbar.

    After logout and login I again tried to launch by command as below:

    $ mousepad
$ zenity --info

    Now Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar" is gone, and problem solved.

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  2. $ sudo apt install --reinstall overlay-scrollbar-gtk2

    Fixed this for me.

    It reinstalls

    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/modules/liboverlay-scrollbar.so

    which was missing before.

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