On 04/05/2016 05:56 PM, Anthony Carrico wrote: > I've noticed that scrollbars in some programs have recently become more > or less unusable for many tasks. Firefox/Thunderbird are most irksome.
Well... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#Legacy_scrolling_behavior Has the solution, in theory: > Legacy scrolling behavior > Note: This setting is not obeyed by all GTK+ applications. > > Tip: Legacy scrolling behaviour can be achieved reliably > simply by using right click instead of left click. > > Prior to GTK+ 3.6, clicking on either side of the slider > in the scrollbar would move the scrollbar in the direction of > the click by approximately one page. Since GTK+ 3.6, the slider > will move directly to the position of the click. This behaviour > can be reverted in some applications by creating the file with > the content below: > > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini > > [Settings] > gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = false ... in theory because while that setting does work for Firefox, it apparently doesn't for Thunderbird, so it is tricky to scroll through incoming messages. I'll keep this rant to a minimum: My laptop's touchpad doesn't support the scroll gesture—GTK, you Broke My Workflow!!! I'm trying to imagine the use case for the new behavior, but I just can't see it. If the idea was that we all are supposed to have touchscreens by now so we don't really need scrollbars... well, I do and it doesn't work in GTK programs! It does work in Chromium. Sorry for the rant. I'm sure it is all a simple misunderstanding. -- Anthony Carrico
