On 4/9/21 2:55 PM, kf wrote:
Scroll buttons have been on windows in linux since the early '90s (in FVWM/X they were, at any rate) and they still are in other apps. But it seems that gnome, like too much else, has abandoned them. (For those who might not know of them, they're the up & down arrows which move the contents of a window a small bit, like just one line of text.) I searched about and played around with gnome for a week before I finally found a way to bring the scroll buttons back. but it was a huge PITA, they don't appear everywhere they should, and there's no telling if some software update will wipe them out again. So does the desktop you're using have scroll buttons?
Ah, that explains it! Gnome at it again! Are we getting the "flat" look from Gnome too? KDE has scroll buttons, but applications written with gnome in mind, don't. I've actually had users complain about this when using Thunderbird and Firefox. I found that making the following modification worked with both TB and FF, but the latest release of TB reverted back to no scroll buttons. Edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and add: *{ -GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: 1; -GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: 1; -GtkScrollbar-has-secondary-backward-stepper: 1; } If anyone knows how to bring them back to Thunderbird I'd certainly like to hear about it! Regards, Lew