How do I get a different type of scrollbars in 12.04? [closed]
- by Joseph Garvin
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable overlay scrollbars?
By default 12.04 uses overlay scroll bars that do not suit my taste, and every method I've found so far of disabling them makes them broken in a different way.
When I was using 11.10 this wasn't a problem because I could still change the GTK theme. In 12.04, the Appearance settings only contain a few stock themes, and other than the special purpose contrast ones they all have the overlay scroll bars. If I aptitude search gtk3 | grep theme I get no results so there appears to be no packaged alternative either.
Most suggestions I've seen for disabling the overlay scroll bars involve uninstalling packages or editing files as root. I want to disable them just for the current user, not for everyone on the whole box; as should be the case for any theme/display setting.
There is a gsettings command that temporarily disables the overlay scrollbars just for the current user, but this has two problems of its own:
The setting doesn't stick after log off. Because who would want to save settings?
The scroll bars put in place have no contrast. They have a black scroller on a black background and are completely unusable.
In short what I'd like to know is how to disable overlay scroll bars such that:
My preference is user specific.
My preference is actually saved.
The scroller can actually be seen against the background without having to use a special high contrast theme that makes my whole desktop look like a negative photo from Tron.
