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BLKNSLVR ◴[] No.44476587[source]
Only tangentially related, and a seemingly lost old-man battle: stop hiding my scrollbar.

Interesting article. Some points I didn't quite agree entirely with. There's a cost and practically limitation to some things (like a physical knob in a car for zooming in and out on a map - although that was probably just an example of intuitive use).

I just recently switched a toggle on a newly installed app that did the opposite of what it was labelled - I thought the label represented the current state, but it represented the state it would switch to if toggled. It became obvious once changed, but that seems the least helpful execution.

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thangalin ◴[] No.44476895[source]
> stop hiding my scrollbar

https://superuser.com/a/1720363

Use Firefox?

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1. panzi ◴[] No.44477661[source]
Stop making my scrollbar so impossible thin, Firefox!
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2. cube00 ◴[] No.44477872[source]
Gnome enjoys the impossibly thin scrollbars too even when you do manage to find them.
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3. Kwpolska ◴[] No.44478470[source]
You might be able to set a different scrollbar style in about:config.
4. gred ◴[] No.44479003[source]
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1407179/widening-firefox-scr...
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5. msgodel ◴[] No.44479509[source]
GTK+ used to be a decent widget toolkit.
6. panzi ◴[] No.44482421[source]
Thanks a lot! This finally did what I want:

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style = 4

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override = 20

Though I'm not sure if I maybe want:

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style = 3

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override = 30

Plus of course that, which I had found earlier and did nothing on it's own:

widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled = false

layout.css.scrollbar-width-thin.disabled = true