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

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 03/13/2014 08:01 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 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
>
	Thank you very much sir. I'll have a look at that.

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