Although I am a Kubuntu user, I recently saw esto and wanted to share it with you. This is a small change in the GNOME settings that will allow us always have scroll bars visible. In Kubuntu and other operating systems that use Plasma, the scroll bar is always visible, smaller and dark, and when we move the cursor it turns blue and larger, but in GNOME we have to manually activate this option.
The downside is that the changes we can make to GNOME in Ubuntu and other operating systems from the system preferences are rather scarce. To be able to make a lot of cool changes, like this o this, we have to pull the terminal or use applications like Retouching, and that is something that we will also have to do in order to see the scroll bar at all times. Here we explain how to get it in GNOME 3.34 and earlier versions.
How to always see the scroll bar in GNOME 3.34
GNOME 3.34 includes this possibility but, like many others, is hidden. We can do the change in two ways:
- We open dconf, we are going to org / gnome / desktop / interface / overlay-scrolling and we choose the option «False» (we want to turn it off to be hidden).
- Writing the following command and restarting all GTK3 applications that include the scroll bar or the operating system:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface overlay-scrolling false
To undo the change, we just have to click "True" in the first method and put "true" in the command of the second.
Also possible in older versions
GNOME 3.34 is out now, but it won't hit the repositories of most distributions for several weeks. If you are in an older version, you can achieve the same effect using a command like this that would work for the gedit app:
GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 gedit
If we want it in all applications, we have to add the following to the ~ / .profile file on your system and restart:
export GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
gdbus call --session --dest org.freedesktop.DBus --object-path /org/freedesktop/DBus --method org.freedesktop.DBus.UpdateActivationEnvironment '{"GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING": "0"}'
Without a doubt, the GNOME 3.34 system is better. And you, do you prefer the scroll bar always visible or hidden to maximize the visible area?