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

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 03/13/2014 09:44 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> 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.

	Skimming over this page brought me to:
http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2013/08/05/scrolling-in-gtk/
	Which confirms, and would probably fall well within "authoritative"...

>>>     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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