Questions[scrollbar](ubuntu)

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 scrollbar to a dignified gray, and have buttons at the top and bottom to single step:

.scrollbar {
  -GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: true;
  -GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: true;
  -GtkRange-slider-width: 16;
  -GtkRange-stepper-size: 16;

  background-color: LightGray;
}

/*
.scrollbar.slider {
    background-color: DarkGray;
    border-radius: 1px;
}
*/


.scrollbar.slider {
    border-color: shade (@bg_color, 0.4);
    background-image: -gtk-gradient (linear, left top, right top,
                                     from (shade (@button_bg_color, 0.9)),
                                     to (shade (@button_bg_color, 0.8)));
    box-shadow: inset 1px 0 shade (@bg_color, 0.85),
                inset -1px 0 shade (@bg_color, 0.62),
                inset 0 1px shade (@bg_color, 0.9),
                inset 0 -1px shade (@bg_color, 0.62);
}

This file seems to have no effect on Ubuntu 18.04. I would very much like to eliminate the skinny scrollbar that widens only when the mouse hovers, and to change the color from the default orange to nice gray. Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this in Ubuntu 18.04?

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 possible to solve it? Terminal shows this errors:

(geany:9576): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:34:04.511: Negative content width -15 (allocation 1, extents 8x8) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry)

(geany:9576): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:34:04.511: Negative content height
-11 (allocation 1, extents 6x6) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner GtkEntry)

(geany:9576): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:34:04.511: Negative content width -1 (allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node scrolledwindow, owner GtkScrolledWindow)

(geany:9576): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:34:04.511: Negative content height -1 (allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node scrolledwindow, owner GtkScrolledWindow)

(geany:9576): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 16:34:04.511: gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion 'size >= 0' failed in GtkScrollbar

(geany:9576): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 16:34:04.511: gtk_widget_get_preferred_width_for_height: assertion 'height >= 0' failed

(geany:9576): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:34:04.511: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width 12 and height -28

(geany:9576): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 16:34:04.511: gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion 'size >= 0' failed in GtkScrollbar

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 cursor onto the vertical or horizontal scroll bar to actually scroll down or up the document I'm working in.

I have a new i5, 7th generation Lenovo Ideapad 320 and installed Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (5 days ago) from the ISO file stored on a bootable USB flash drive after I partitioned the hard drive about 50-50 between Ubuntu and Windows 10.

I have spent hours reading the "solutions" offered or tried by others, but have failed.

Upon attempting to save the changes I made to the widths of the scroll bars, the error message appeared:

Error writing gtk-widgets.css: Permission denied"

(I attempted the solution posted @16:14 on 19 January by Carlos Alberto Martinez Gadea).

I'm glad the outside overlay scrollbars are finally gone.

But the scrollbar is still a razor thin line that becomes a less razor thin scrollbar, but still thin scrollbar, when the mouse hovers.

How can I get a normal scrollbar? I.e., like in other OSes, like in Firefox, a scrollbar that doesn't change depending on what the mouse points to, and with a nice width.

I already tried

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

but no luck.

I recently upgraded a 10.10 server (headless, EC2) to 11.04 and then to 11.10. Both upgrades seem to have worked, but now my terminal acts differently, particularly concerning output scrolling. I am accessing this server via Terminal on a 11.10 Desktop (GNOME fallback).

10.10 Behavior:

• A scroll bar is displayed on the right side of my Terminal, allowing me to scroll back to older output
• Turning the mouse wheel scrolls back to older output

11.10 Behavior:

• No scroll bar is visible
• Turning the mouse wheel cycles the current line through my command history (same as UP key)

This is a difficult issue to describe succinctly and I've had no luck finding any information about this. But I've performed the same upgrade several times (10.10->11.10) and the result is always the same concerning Terminal scrolling. Output scrolling is very important to me and something I take for granted - I'm concerned I'll be unable to work effectively on this server until I resolve this.

Update - Problem magically gone after logout/login Well, as I said I've done the same upgrade several times and encountered the same problem. However, in the previous tries I was scared away and gave up. This time I was more determined to finish the upgrade and by simply logging out and back in to the server via SSH the problem has corrected itself.