Closed Bug 1650497 Opened 5 years ago Closed 4 years ago

scrollbar not visible unless hovered

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: CarlPonder, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0

Steps to reproduce:

This problem showed up when I installed Ubuntu 18.04.
I'm using Gnome "classic".

Actual results:

The scrollbars on the right are missing unless i put the mouse-cursor over the position of the scrollbar. Most of the time the scrollbar is too short for me to be able to find its position.

Expected results:

The bar should always be visible.
If there is a setting to correct this, please tell me.
Other apps like "gedit" don't have this problem, I only see it with Thunderbird & FireFox.

Is this a Firefox package provided by Ubuntu, or did you download and install Firefox from Mozilla directly?

GNOME by default shows overlay scrollbars (not sure what Ubuntu does) so by default scrollbars are hidden.
If you open a terminal window and enter the command gesettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface overlay-scrolling what is the output?

Furthermore, bug 1147847 is still open and unresolved which makes this a bit surprising.

I believe the FireFox & Thinderbird are the ones that come with Ubuntu. Likely Ubuntu has automatically updated them since the initial install.
I ran your command and got

 Command 'gesettings' not found, did you mean:
   command 'gsettings' from deb libglib2.0-bin
 Try: sudo apt install <deb name>

Running this install command

 sudo apt-get -y install libglib2.0-bin

looked like it worked

 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree       
 Reading state information... Done
 libglib2.0-bin is already the newest version (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.6).
 libglib2.0-bin set to manually installed.
 The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
   gir1.2-geocodeglib-1.0 libfwup1 libllvm8 libwayland-egl1-mesa ubuntu-web-launchers
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.

but the command is still missing.

With FireFox, at least, I could restore the normal scrollbars with this extension:

     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-scrollbars/

I am very sorry, I had a typo. The command should have been gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface overlay-scrolling instead.

Ok here:

    No such key “overlay-scrolling”

Not sure what that means....

This really starts to sound like a support question for an Ubuntu forum if you run Ubuntu and software modified and provided to you by Ubuntu (for example, Firefox).

I'm closing this as this seems to be distribution and downstream specific, and nothing to fix in Firefox code itself.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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