ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars set to false shows no arrows in several cases

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Published on 2012-09-20T14:43:12Z Indexed on 2012/10/25 23:16 UTC
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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, with some apps (e.g. Nautilus, Document Viewer) my scrollbars only view a vertical bar, but no arrows on the top and bottom to scroll up and down. With some programs these are shown though, for instance Gummi and Texmaker.

It would make a big difference (for instance when having to scroll pdf documents containing several hundreds of pages) to have those arrows reinstated. Is there any way to make this work?

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