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Gezbarb

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Registered: 2014-01-19

Posts: 18

Firefox/scrollbar buttons in xfce4

I got scrollbar buttons working fine with nearly every application, including Mozilla  Thunderbird, except Firefox.

Basically tried several variations on suggestions here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=157386

Also tried these: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1011858 http://opensuse.14.x6.nabble.com/Scroll … 99329.html

Tried several different themes. Tried deleting all Firefox data and restoring to default settings. No matter what I do I can't get the up and down buttons back on my scrollbar in Firefox.  Tried tweaking settings for gtk2 and gtk3 (both are dependencies for Firefox in the Arch package).

As of this moment, I'm using Firefox 45.0.5. xfce4 is my preferred desktop environment - guess I am  at 4.12.x?  pacman -Syu is pretty much all up to date.

uname -a output: Linux [hostname_redacted] 4.5.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 14 19:19:32 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I'm hoping I'm just overlooking some easy setting, but this is frustrating. Thank you!

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: Firefox/scrollbar buttons in xfce4

You need to use the Arch package for Firefox. Right now, the Firefox binaries you get from Mozilla do not work because of the 3.20 version of gtk3. The Arch package compiles Firefox with some patches to show scrollbars, check-boxes, etc. correctly.

Gezbarb

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Registered: 2014-01-19

Posts: 18

Re: Firefox/scrollbar buttons in xfce4

I am using the Firefox package.  I try to install everything with pacman, in this case pacman -S firefox.

$ pacman -Qi firefox
Name            : firefox
Version         : 45.0.2-1
Description     : Standalone web browser from mozilla.org
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Licenses        : MPL  GPL  LGPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gtk3  gtk2  mozilla-common  libxt  startup-notification  mime-types  dbus-glib  alsa-lib  ffmpeg  desktop-file-utils  hicolor-icon-theme
                  libvpx  icu  libevent  nss  hunspell  sqlite  ttf-font
Optional Deps   : networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi networks [installed]
                  upower: Battery API [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 91.99 MiB
Packager        : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date      : Tue 12 Apr 2016 07:26:04 PM EDT
Install Date    : Mon 18 Apr 2016 11:02:03 PM EDT
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : Yes
Validated By    : Signature

Last edited by Gezbarb (2016-04-23 20:33:59)

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: Firefox/scrollbar buttons in xfce4

Could you try switching to a different GTK theme? Try the gtk3 default "Adwaita".

Last edited by Ropid (2016-04-23 21:54:45)

Gezbarb

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Registered: 2014-01-19

Posts: 18

Re: Firefox/scrollbar buttons in xfce4

Yeah, tried that.  I managed to get the scroll buttons in (I guess) everything but firefox with that theme.

Gezbarb

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Registered: 2014-01-19

Posts: 18

Re: Firefox/scrollbar buttons in xfce4

Possibly found a solution. Create a file called ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and add:

*{
-GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: 1;
-GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: 1;
-GtkRange-slider-width: 13;
}

Now Adwaita themed Firefox has the steppers again. Kudos to this Mint forum thread.