Ubuntu GNome 13.10 - Revert scroll bars to the old way

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 03/13/2014 10:20 AM, Chris Luck wrote:
> On 10/03/14 20:42, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>> Just reinstall 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> DCONF editor didn't' seem to hold the answer either....
>
>
> The pagination issue has cropped-up already in the g.l.u.u.kubuntu forum
> where the scrollbar oddity has been observed most particularly in
> Synaptic (I'm using Kubuntu 13.10).
>
> To get the standard paging effect they now expect the user to
> *Right*-click on the scrollbar track!  But there is a hack on offer
> which reverts to the standard behaviour:
>
> To handle apps. user-wide, edit:
>     ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
>
> To handle apps. system-wide and/or those opened with gksu (or kdesu), edit:
>     /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
>
> Add this line to the settings:
>     gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=0
>
>
> The absent scroll arrows are a separate issue, this thread (and similar)
> offer some guidance - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=157386
>
	Thanks. I'll have a look at that.

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