Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Scroll Bars with Arrows Wanted

["Wells, Roger K." <wellsr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/24/2018 04:49 PM, fred roller wrote:

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 24 January 2018 at 22:36, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When the arrows first disappeared someone gave me this
> info:
>
> Among the gtk3 designer's more repulsive "improvements" is the removal
> of arrows from scrollbars, so when you have a very long list the slightest
> touch of the scrollbar sends the contents zooming off into the sunset.
>
> This can be fixed by creating this file:
>
> ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
>
> and sticking this magic in it:
>
> .scrollbar {
> -GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: 1;
> -GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: 1;
> -GtkRange-slider-width: 15;
> -GtkRange-stepper-size: 20;
> }
>
> That worked for a while, but now the designers have apparently
> discovered people were circumventing them and changed things
> so this no longer works :-).

Searching online, someone in the Linux Mint forum seems to have come
up with a way to make this work, simply replacing ".srcollbar" with
"*". I'd tested that briefly and it seems to work, but I don't know if
that would have any undesirable side-effects.

--
Ahmad Samir

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have you tried [shift]+[wheel] for horizontal scroll?

-- Fred

I just tried that in a libreoffice spreadsheet and it worked very well

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