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

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 03/13/2014 09:59 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> 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.

	This seems to have done the trick, thanks. :)


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