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Arrows on scrollbars

Sunday, June 19, 2005 ★ 16:58 ★ Category Gnome

If you don’t have a mouse wheel and you’re scrolling up and down in any GTK+ widget, it’s very annoying to move your mouse to the small up/down button at the top and the bottom of the scrollbars.

Luckily, GTK+ is customizable. Add the following lines to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 if you want two buttons on top and two buttons at the bottom:

style "scrollbar" {
  GtkScrollbar::has_backward_stepper = 1
  GtkScrollbar::has_forward_stepper = 1
  GtkScrollbar::has_secondary_backward_stepper = 1
  GtkScrollbar::has_secondary_forward_stepper = 1
  GtkScrollbar::min_slider_length = 30
}
class "GtkScrollbar" style "scrollbar"

Oh, and as an added bonus the slider is always long enough to grab easily.