Fwd: Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 - Revert scroll bars to the old way

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 01:13:18PM -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> 	Just reinstalled Ubuntu Gnome. Previously I would just upgrade from
> one release to the next; but it was time to just reinstall.
> 	Somewhere along the way, the scrollbar behavior has changed, and I
> can't find out how to get it back.

GNOME 3.6 changed the scrollbar behavior.  (This has nothing to do with
Ubuntu's "Ayatana" overlay scrollbars BTW.)

Previously:
left click on scrollbar - scroll the website up or down by one page (you can also hold the button)
middle click on scrollbar - move the website to the exact position (you can also drag and move)
right click on scrollbar - nothing

Now:
left click on scrollbar - move the website to the exact position (you can also drag and move)
middle click on scrollbar - nothing
right click on scrollbar - scroll the website up or down by one page (you can also hold the button)

Source: https://github.com/gnome-integration-team/firefox-gnome/issues/164.
I couldn't find a more authoritative source since Google is full of
results about Ubuntu's unrelated and earlier scrollbar change.

> 	Now, the scroll arrows are MIA, and when I click on an are of the
> scroll bar, it jumps right to that position instead of scrolling a
> page at a time in that direction.

Yup.

> 	DCONF editor didn't' seem to hold the answer either....

I think you may change it by creating a ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
with

  [Settings]
  gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = 0

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-primary-button-warps-slider

Marius Gedminas
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