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Larry Golade
Asked: 2016-05-19 05:10:12 +0800 CST

How to fix the scrollbar new behaviour in Firefox

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This question has already been asked (How to fix GTK3 scrollbar behavior) but I don't know how to implement the answer: If I click in the scrollbar below or above the thumb it moves to the spot I just clicked. This happens in Firefox but not in Opera, the 2 browsers I use. Could someone explain how to fix the problem?

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2 Answers

  1. What you want is called "legacy scrolling" in gtk3: edit or create $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini to have

    [Settings]

    as the first line and 

    gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=false

    on a subsequent line by itself. This works in most gtk3 applications but is said not to work in some. Alternatively, right-click instead of left-clicking works in all applications. And, if you want legacy scrolling system-wide, sudo edit /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini the same way.

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  2. You can find out where got changed; during GTK v3.6 merge.

    Kristian Rietveld and Michael Natterer introduced the feature but both had since dropped out of GitHub. :-/

    https://github.com/GNOME/gtk/commit/64324a5da080bee7ca42cfe53dadea9a882a9e64

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