Overlay scrollbars are turning me away from ubuntu ubuntu forums. Now its easy to disable overlay scrollbars in ubuntu 19. How to change color and width of non overlay scrollbars in. Launch dconf editor, then navigate to orggnomedesktopinterface. Then, under unsettings windows tab turn off overlay scrollbars and apply changes. According to will cooke, ubuntu desktop manager, the main purpose of this change is to minimize the maintenance effort, since both gnome and unity overlay scrollbars have the same.
Use this command in your terminal to enable the overlay scrollbar. Most of the people very liked this innovation and understood our need to be consistent to our. This means it is supported for 5 years with critical security, bug and app updates from canonical, the company that makes ubuntu. Ubuntus overlay scrollbar remains in xfce desktop xfce forums.
Unitys new overlay scrollbars are a small but important detail in this bigger picture. Problem todays scrollbars are optimized for cursor driven ui but they became easily unnecessary a. Then, search for overlay scrollbars or overlayscrollbar or something similar and play with the colors specified in those sections. We can easily disable overlay scrollbars feature by removing its packages. One of our goals in the unity design effort is maximising immersion in content, and reducing the amount of chrome and clutter needed around that content. Also overlayscrollbar or overlayscrollbargtk2 are not installed. Obviously, you can set different colors in the two files if you so choose. Solved how can i disable overlay scrollbars in gtkapps on. I have not knowingly activated such a feature, nor did i install any overlayscrollbar package. When we introduced the new overlay scrollbars we knew it was a bold decision and we were expecting some critics because of the use cases we didnt support.
Open ubuntu software, search for and install dconf editor. So, for everyone searching for this, heres how to disable the overlay scrollbars in ubuntu. I hesitate to add the unity tweak tool as it wanted to download a giant list of other unity stuff. This subreddit is for news, information and general discussion related to ubuntu. I have not knowingly activated such a feature, nor did i install any overlay scrollbar package. You can already test overlay scrollbars in ubuntu 11. Problem todays scrollbars are optimized for cursor driven. For some reason, when i used the command xinit xfce4 under xubuntu 12. How to disable the overlay scrollbars in ubuntu quick tip. Now im getting tired of trying to make overlay scrollbars work satisfactorily. This video shows you how to get the old scrollbar back to your ubuntu os, so you dont have to worry about the new unity scrollbar, which i personally think is stupid. First need to install dconftools via ubuntu software center. The goal is to put content first and banish chrome, while still paying.
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