firefox, icedove: scrollbars not visible ...

[samoht]

... because of gtk glitch, I guess.
Does somebody know a workaround or fix?
Greetings
Tom

[melmarker]

maybe - should work ok with the adwaita engine

[domicius]

maybe - should work ok with the adwaita engine

Doesn't seem to make a difference. I already had Adwaita theme selected as a GTK3 theme and I use Firefox from Mozilla, meaning it's built with GTK3 enabled, unlike Debian version, which still ships with GTK2 (didn't check now, but that's how it was a couple of weeks ago).

I did have oxygen-gtk selected as a GTK2 theme and GTK2 apps like leafpad showed the scrollbar, no matter which theme of the two was selected. BTW, I selected the oxygen-gtk instead of Adwaita because of recent changes that completely changed the *theme* for GTK2 apps.

[harley-peter]

Same problem here. I use Xfce and tried several themes without success.

[der_bud]

Here, installing clearlooks-phenix-theme (a GTK3 port of Clearlooks theme)  from standard debian repos and  gtk3-engines-breeze (a GTK theme built to match KDE's Breeze)  from debian experimental repo brings back scrollbar in firefox in my KDE. As I have installed both together, I cannot tell which one solved that issue.

Edit: posted this to fast, at the same time firefox got updated, probably fixed by that and not by installing some themes

[samoht]

@der_bud,

your assumption confirmed here: with fresh firefox release (sid: 46.0.1-1) scrollbar bug disappeared.
icedove still buggy  .

Greetings
Tom

[harley-peter]

@der_bud:
I cannot confirm this. I downloaded the version 47 Beta but the scrollbars are not visible.

[harley-peter]

New Info:
only with the theme Raleigh the scrollbars are visible in Firefox but with this theme the scrollbars in Evince are not visible.  There is no theme in the normal Xfce installation which works correct with all applications.

[Mte90]

I have icedove 45.1.0 and with the gnome-breeze on KDE from github it is work perfectly. I think that icedove have not switched to GTK 3.

While firefox 47beta have the problems also of the checkbox/radio and the scrollbar on KDE.

To fix the scroolbar I used stylish with https://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=scrollbar
and for the checkbox/radio https://userstyles.org/styles/24068/comprehensive-kde3-and-qt3-firefox-ui-fixes

https://github.com/dirruk1/gnome-breeze

[harley-peter]

Here without success.
I downloaded xfwm4-breeze because I use Xfce and the proposed stylish scrollbar but nothing changed.

[musca]

Moin harley-peter,

since GTK 3.16 the "overlay scrolling" feature hides your scroll bars.
Now you see them by "mouse over" only.

If this option interferes with your combination of theme and graphics driver, then you can try to disable it.

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~$ GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 evince ${filename.pdf}

You can export the variable in your ~/.profile or
set it in  ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini  [thx, der_bud]

In cinnamon the feature is disabled by default since version 3.0.4.

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~$ gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-overlay-scrollbars
false

greetings
musca