A way to re-enable scroll bar buttons in Gnome (GTK) 3?

trusktr · 2012-05-04 21:27:00

Is there a way to re-enable or add the scrollbar buttons (on the top and bottom of vertical scrollbars or on the left and right of horizontal scrollbars) in Gnome (GTK) 3?

Unia · 2012-05-04 22:36:35

AFAIK those are theme-dependant. Here's a snippet from the Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css:

/*************
 * scrollbar *
 *************/
.scrollbar {
    -GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: 0;
    -GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: 0;
    -GtkRange-slider-width: 13;

See the backward and forward stepper lines? Try to see what your theme has.

trusktr · 2012-05-05 21:11:06

Nice. I searched for those properties and set the values to 1 in my theme's gtk-widgets.css file (my theme is RevoLT by Malys) then refreshed the theme (by changing to a different theme then changing back) but nothing happened and there were no scrollbar buttons.

It worked after logging out then logging back in though. Is there a way to refresh themes in the classic "Fallback Mode" without logging out and in? Gnome Shell allows you to do Alt+F2 then run the "r" command but in fallback mode that doesn't work.

On another note, It's nice that the buttons can be turned on/off inside a theme's CSS, but I think it'd be more user friendly (maybe not for Archers, but especially for many Ubuntu users ) to be able to toggle this setting from within Gnome's "System Settings" (instead of theme designers deciding for us). Designers would simply design for both cases while letting users make the final decision in System Settings (or even gconf/dconf for that matter).

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#1 2012-05-04 21:27:00

A way to re-enable scroll bar buttons in Gnome (GTK) 3?

#2 2012-05-04 22:36:35

Re: A way to re-enable scroll bar buttons in Gnome (GTK) 3?

#3 2012-05-05 21:11:06

Re: A way to re-enable scroll bar buttons in Gnome (GTK) 3?

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