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I'm trying to work on a document in Libreoffice and there are no up or down arrows in the vertical scroll sidebar. This makes it hard to move up or down in the document. How do I get the up and down arrows in the scroll sidebar?

15.04 fixes doesn't work with 18.04

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  • Possible duplicate: https://askubuntu.com/questions/705314/scroll-bar-arrows-missing-after-a-recent-update-of-15-10 – DK Bose Apr 29 '18 at 03:51
  • Essentially, you can search for a gtk3 theme that has the little arrows present by default, or, if possible, edit your theme's existing gtk-widgets.css to change -GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: false; and -GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: false; to true – DK Bose Apr 29 '18 at 03:54
  • Didn't help. Older version, not 18.04 – casawyer Apr 29 '18 at 04:50
  • Also can't use GTK themes in 18.04 at this point. – casawyer Apr 29 '18 at 04:50
  • As a short term fix, you can grab the scroll bar slider and move it up and down. For smaller movements use PageUp and PageDown keys. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Apr 29 '18 at 19:37
  • Using the up and down keys doesn't work the same. It is frustrating. – casawyer Apr 30 '18 at 03:12
  • also with long documents, using the scroll bar slide doesn't work well either. – casawyer Apr 30 '18 at 03:13
  • Unfortunately developers of GNOME are completely ignoring usability and long standing GUI conventions in the sake of "modernizing" their interface! :( I tried all the default desktop managers and all the themes installed by default in Ubuntu 19.04: All have the same problem of not displaying the arrows on the scrollbars. – FedKad Apr 27 '19 at 11:42

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I solved the problem ba uninstalling libreoffice-gtk2 and libreoffice-gtk3. To test it You can use "SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen libreoffice " in a terminal window.

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