Disable scrollbar overlay in XFCE? (past posted solutions do not work)

mrwhiskers · 2022-09-07 20:57:03

On my Xubuntu 20.04 lts system with Xfce 4.14 (as stated by xfce4-about) I noticed Thunar for example hiding the scrollbar when not in use. Firefox of course had added this "innovation" a while ago but I had fixed it via some about:config option. However this time I noticed other apps are also doing this now.

On past threads ( for example: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=9540 )

env GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 app

or

export GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0

were suggested. Neither of these worked for me.

I also tried installing dconf-cli and applying the dconf trick mentioned for gnome systems by

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface overlay-scrolling false

and also tried adding the export code as a bash script to ~/.xsession (and setting it executable).

Neither worked.

I tried successively restarting Thunar, restarting X and rebooting after each step, to no avail.

What can be done now?

edit: I must add Xubuntu 20.04 uses LightDM login manager

Last edited by mrwhiskers (2022-09-07 21:06:07)

ToZ · 2022-09-07 23:22:32

Hello and welcome.
Do these command disable the overlay scrollbars for you?

thunar -q
GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 thunar

Which version of thunar are you running:

thunar -V

...and what is your default shell?

Here is the ubuntu environment variables wiki page. If you are using bash, a file in /etc/profile.d should work.

mrwhiskers · 2022-09-07 23:48:03

Funnily that worked ie doing a 'thunar -q' first. I have no idea why. I went further than just quitting thunar to the point of two reboots previously.

I have:

Thunar 1.8.14
GNU bash 5.0.17

edit: I appended

GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0

to /etc/environment as per the Ubuntu article and rebooted, Thunar now seems to show scrollbars by default thankfully.

Thanks for helping me out with this strange peculiarity of having to -quit Thunar first.

Last edited by mrwhiskers (2022-09-07 23:57:29)

ToZ · 2022-09-08 00:25:04

mrwhiskers wrote:

Thanks for helping me out with this strange peculiarity of having to -quit Thunar first.

By default, thunar runs in daemon mode and any changes made to a new instance won't work unless you kill the daemon first.

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Disable scrollbar overlay in XFCE? (past posted solutions do not work)

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