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ratlover

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Registered: 2020-08-29

Posts: 4

How to remove the 'autohide scrollbar'?

I use XFCE 4.12 and I want my scrollbar always visible.
How can I do it?

MrEen

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Registered: 2019-04-19

Posts: 295

Re: How to remove the 'autohide scrollbar'?

Hi ratlover,

It's an old thread, but the solutions here still work.

jesus2099

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Registered: 2020-05-04

Posts: 20

Re: How to remove the 'autohide scrollbar'?

Thanks MrEen!
Over there, they provide a solution from this Xfce forum, for the record, it could be this post:

Okay, I see what your talking about. I also use Arch but I don't have any GTK3 apps installed. I installed Remmina and I can now see the auto-hiding scrollbar. Looks like this is the new GTK3.16 overlay scrollbars. According to this commit, they can be turned off via an environment variable.

EDIT: Running an app like:

env GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 <app>

...will disable the overlay scrollbars.

Adding:

export GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0

...to my ~/.bashrc file makes it permanent for my session.

Last edited by jesus2099 (2020-09-02 05:19:09)

MrEen

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Registered: 2019-04-19

Posts: 295

Re: How to remove the 'autohide scrollbar'?

And adding GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 to /etc/environment disables it globally from what I understand.

There's many ways to skin a scrollbar!

Last edited by MrEen (2020-09-02 06:35:53)