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The new scroll-bars introduced in unity;use an overlay to ensure that scroll-bars take up no active screen real-estate. A thumb appears magically when the pointer is in proximity to the scroll-bar, for easy desktop-style paging and dragging.

The overlay-scrollbars is part of the Ayatana Project.

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How do I disable overlay scrollbars?

It looks like Ubuntu 11.04 will come with overlay scrollbars by default. I do like them, but I don't like the current mix of scrollbar types as many applications don't yet use those overlay scrollbars. Is there a way to disable overlay scrollbars…
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Is there a way to blacklist an individual application from using overlay-scrollbars?

I am having problems with some programs when using overlay-scrollbars, mainly Code::Blocks and Eclipse. I've found several ways of disabling the overlay scrollbars completely, for all applications, but I like them and I don't want to do this. Is…
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How do I get rid of the Ubuntu scrollbars and theming in Firefox 46.0?

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and I've just upgraded the firefox package (released today) from 45.0.2 to 46.0. The release has brought an unwelcome change; the ugly Ubuntu scrollbars, and even uglier Ubuntu menu colours. How can I disable these, and get…
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How do I enable overlay scrollbars in Firefox?

I like the overlay scrollbars that come with natty beta 2 by default! How do I enable them on fx4?
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How to enable overlay scrollbars in my app?

I'm testing my app in Natty 2nd beta, in which most applications are showing the new overlay scroolbars, I guess only non-native GTK apps can't show it (like LibreOffice or Firefox). My app is coded using Python and pygtk so I thought the overlay…
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Enable Overlay Scrollbars In all Applications

Is there a way to force all applications to use the Natty overlay scrollbars? Examples: Chrome doesn't use it, neither does Firefox, gnome-terminal or a host of other applications.
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Is there a way to enable smooth scrolling for PDFs?

There is one small issue with Ubuntu that is driving me crazy. Smooth scrolling when reading documents PDF's isn't smooth. I was using evince to read PDF's and bigger books of 200+ pages. The slightest movement results in a major movement of many…
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How to remove overlay-scrollbars in Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04?

Since 17.10 solutions working in previous versions don't work anymore (E.g. N0rberts option 2 ("Remove overlay-scrollbar stuff") in Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar" Ubuntu 17.10.).
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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar" Ubuntu 17.10

I run application in reinstalled Qt Creator 3.5.1 (opensource) Based on Qt 5.5.1 (GCC 4.9.1 20140922 (Red Hat 4.9.1-10), 32 bit) And the building is successful. But also there are warnings: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module…
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Why do Synaptic and Update Manager not use overlay scrollbars?

This happens in both 11.04 and 11.0. I read in some place that this apps are “blacklisted” to explicitly not use overlay scrollbars, but why? EDIT (17 Sep): Now Update Manager has been whitelisted and it uses overlay scrollbars (see this revision).…
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ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars set to false shows no arrows in several cases

I'm running 12.04, and prefer the more conservative style "normal" scrollbars over the overlay scrollbars. I have set them to false in the terminal: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars false However after doing so,…
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Eclipse Luna displaying regular scrollbars instead of overlay scrollbars - how to change?

I've recently switched to using the new Eclipse Luna, but for some reason it stopped displaying the overlay scrollbars, and now shows the regular ones that are in e.g. Firefox. Kepler had them. Since Eclipse UI is cluttered already, I would like to…
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How to disable the hiding of scrollbars in version 16.04 and up

Can someone tell me how to disable the new behavior that just started in Ubuntu 15.10, the hiding of the scrollbars. I can find many references and questions on this, but they are all related to removing the actual overlay scrollbars and replacing…
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Overlay scrollbar for Chromium browser

Possible Duplicate: Enable Overlay Scrollbars In all Applications Will Chromium Browser ever get overlay scrollbar? Like this:
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How do I compile and use liboverlay-scrollbar from source?

I'm trying to install and use a patched version of liboverlay-scrollbar that matches my personal preferences. I've successfully downloaded lp:ayatana-scrollbar and ./autogen.sh; make; sudo make installed it. Here's the problem. Taking a look at ldd…
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