Okay, first let me say that I'm coming back to Linux after a few years away. As I'm sure you can tell from the question, it has been a while.

I also know that the scroll bar arrows were taken out intentionally. From what I've read this was to better facilitate touchscreens.

I get all of that. However, I'm disabled. Had a neck operation that went sideways. I won't bore you with all of the details, but please understand that to me, those scroll bar arrows are dang close to being a necessity.

I can't find any way to get them back. I don't want to go to an earlier version either. I actually thought they may be included in the Universal Access settings, but no such luck.

Please, don't give me some of the "holier-than-thou," snobbish replies about this is a move forward, go buy a new mouse with a scroll bar (I'm on a laptop that fits my particular situation), that I have read on other forums. If that makes anyone upset, tough. I read way too many replies that showed an attitude I didn't expect from the Linux community.

Anyway, all of that aside, having scroll bar arrows would be very helpful to me as a disabled person stuck on the laptop setup that I have.

Does anyone out there know of any way to bring back the scroll arrows? Please.

Thank you.

Walt

Hi Walt.

Please see this recent thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...rs-4175642135/

I've copied my theme-specific solution from that thread (although it mentions Mint, it can also be used e.g. for Ubuntu).

As a general rule for gtk3, you can re-add scrollbars by editing your theme's CSS file and adding:

If you don't want to edit the theme file in /usr/share/themes, you can create an overriding theme file in your home directory. For example, for the Mint-X theme in Mint 19:

and then populate that file with:

hydrurga,

Thank you for the response.

I tried both of those suggestions, but could not get them to work.

I don't see any references to "GtkScrollbar" in my .css files. Here is what is shown under the scrollbar section:

/* Scrollbars */
StScrollView.vfade {
-st-vfade-offset: 68px; }

StScrollView.hfade {
-st-hfade-offset: 68px; }

StScrollBar {
padding: 0; }
StScrollView StScrollBar {
min-width: 14px;
min-height: 14px; }
StScrollBar StBin#trough {
border-radius: 0;
background-color: transparent; }
StScrollBar StButton#vhandle, StScrollBar StButton#hhandle {
border-radius: 8px;
background-color: #a6a8a7;
margin: 3px; }
StScrollBar StButton#vhandle:hover, StScrollBar StButton#hhandle:hover {
background-color: #cacbc9; }
StScrollBar StButton#vhandle:active, StScrollBar StButton#hhandle:active {
background-color: #dd4814; }


Did this change somewhere along the way to the current release? If it helps, I'm running:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic



I also tried changing themes, but to no avail. I didn't think the theme change would work, as from what I am seeing it is a base level change the eliminated the scrollbar arrows. Figured it was worth a try though.

Anyway, if you or anyone has any other suggestions, I'm open to giving them a try.

Thanks again.

walt

Which theme are you using, and which CSS file did you try to edit (what is its filepath)?

WaltKo, if you like having the auxiliary stepper at the bottom, and want the "arrows" back regardless of theme, try:
On a related note, you may not like the behavior of the scrollbars, and may find adding to settings.ini in the same directory to your liking. Firefox ignores it, but has its own hidden setting that does the same thing.