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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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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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How do I disable overlay scrollbars on Ubuntu 17.04?

I really hate overlay scrollbars. Solutions like gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars false or gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal aren’t working anymore, and uninstalling…
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How can I grab Unity scrollbars from the side of the screen?

I can grab normal scroll bars by moving my pointer far to the right. I'm usually able to do this without looking because the pointer stops at the edge, and the scrollbar is on the edge. I'm familiar with this to the point that I'm usually not aware…
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How to use overlay scrollbars for large scrolling areas?

I sometimes open large files with dozens of pages of text in them. However, often I find that I drag the overlay scrollbar to the top or to the bottom of the window, but I am nowhere near the beginning or the end of the document. Currently to…
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Which applications support the new scroll bars?

Will all programs in Natty have the new cool scroll bars once the final version comes out?
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error: No such schema 'com.canonical.desktop.interface'

Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS I want to return a standard(old) scroll bar. olga@olga:~$ gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal No such schema 'com.canonical.desktop.interface' Can someone please suggest, how do I get the standart…
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revert back to old style slidebars to get rid of the transparent slidebars

Possible Duplicate: How do I disable overlay scrollbars? Sorry not sure if this is the right place to post this. I'm trying to get rid of these annoying transparent slide bars i want the old style slide bars back. I run ubuntu classic desktop its…
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