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I just installed Ubuntu 15.10 and I'm fairly pleased with it. Among other things, I'm pleased that the non-scrollbar scrollbars are gone, but the new ones are still too thin for me; I would rather lose a few px of real estate from my apps and win a scrollbar that I can actually click on without sniper precision.

Is it possible to make the scrollbars a bit wider without wrecking everything?

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Instead of customizing a theme, set the general properties of gtk-3.0. I wrote out how to do it earlier this week on this one.

How to get a bigger static scrollbar (aka normal scrollbar)?

Mine is the answer that has no up votes :( Here's the gist

$ cat .config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
.scrollbar {
  -GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: true;
  -GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: true;
  -GtkRange-slider-width: 20;
  -GtkRange-stepper-size: 20;
}
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If you mean the thin GTK3 scrollbar, it is from the theme properties. This is for Ambiance.

  1. Open /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css for editing

    gksu gedit

  2. Go around line 1143 and change:

        -GtkRange-slider-width: 10;

    to 

        -GtkRange-slider-width: 20;

BTW, you can always take a adventure with try & fail :)

grep -rn scroll /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/
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