Gnome3 scroll bars hassle

Created by: Lester Caine, Last modification: 16 Jul 2013 (19:29 BST)

Need to fill this up yet

Initial thread that provided a solution gives an example of where these sort of poorly documented and discussed changes cause many people problems.

Disabling 'natural scrolling' and restore the action to match every other system

gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = 0

Another problem with the scoll bars is the removal of the scroll buttons top and bottom of the bar. These can be restored in the theme, but I need to establish a concistent way of doing that.

style "scrollbar-arrows" {
    GtkScrollbar::has-backward-stepper = 1
    GtkScrollbar::has-forward-stepper = 1
    GtkScrollbar::has-secondary-backward-stepper = 1
    GtkScrollbar::has-secondary-forward-stepper = 0
}
class "GtkScrollbar" style "scrollbar-arrows"

This needs checking against the various theme settings. clearlooks included the 'stepper' buttons, but none of the other gtk3 compatible themes in SUSE currently do. Another cross platform theme BiSOFT-G3g doesn't have the buttons, but I've not been able to find the right changes to switch them back on yet.

Themes Checked

  1. Adwaita - No buttons
  2. BiSOFT-G3g - No buttons
  3. Clearlookshenix - Working Nicely - buttons and contrast on text areas
  4. GnomishBeige - Scroll Buttons, but too black to work with
  5. Greybird - No buttons
  6. HighContrast - No buttons
  7. Oxygen-gtk - Buttons on gtk3 apps, but no matching gnome-shell style steets
  8. Sonar - buttons, but stragh highlighting on mose-over


Cinnamon compatible thtemes on gnome-look mainly 'windows' compatible styles rather than nice styles, or without the gtk2 and gtk3 style sheets.