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Remember those buttons at the ends of vertical scrollbars for scrolling up and down one line at a time? I would like those on my Lubuntu system. It's a pain without them, particularly for laptop users with no external mouse.

As I understand overlay-scrollbar is something different and is not the subject of my question. So I don't think this is a duplicate of How do I disable overlay scrollbars?. I see the problem in Geany and LXTerminal. Visible scrollbar but no arrow buttons at either end. Its the buttons I want back. I followed the instructions in the link to the supposed duplicate and they had no effect after a restart.

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I got the solution. It has to do with the configruation file for gtk. I got the solution fron a Firefox forum that pointed me to an openSUSE forum. I could not locate an application to generate the code so I did manual entry. There was one syntax error in the solution that I corrected by looking at the config files generated by GNOMEcolor chooser. The GNOME color chooser needs an enable option for the 'stepper'. The following is the solution:

:~> cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0
style "stepper-enable"
{
GtkScrollbar::slider_width = 15
GtkScrollbar::stepper_size = 15
GtkScrollbar::has-backward-stepper = 1
GtkScrollbar::has-forward-stepper = 1
}

class "GtkScrollbar" style "stepper-enable"
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