This brief tutorial shows you how to disable Ubuntu overlay scrollbars in Ubuntu 12.04 easily. This is not something everyone will want to do, but if you feel that this feature is not for you, then you may turn it off. Turning it off is easy and will return your system the default scrollbar that was previously standard in Ubuntu.
Objectives:
- Turn off Ubuntu overlay scrollbars in Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
- Enjoy!
To get started, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal When it opens, run the commands below to disable it.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars false
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Before:
After:
Notice the difference?
Enjoy!
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Thank you very much man !
I hate this overlay scroll and I really like the simpe solution you provided.
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Maxi
Thanks
Worked perfectly
Muchas gracias. I don’t know what the standard scroll widget is supposed to be, but the fix makes it all palatable. Now, if you could make the rest of Eclipse pleasant….
Nothing happens, same as before.
hey,
thank god for your fix. Bit by bit ubuntu will be a system to work with.
thank you
This works perfectly. Thanks, I really appreciate it. I really hate the one that comes with ubuntu…
I had the same: didn’t work.
Try to enter in terminal: “sudo gsettings…”.
It worked good.
Thanks for writing this tip!
Didn’t work
Thanks man, I got tired of playing cat and mouse with that silly little scrollbar!
Thanks, this helped.
How perfect and simple!
Thanks so much!! Right after pressing enter, it started to work perfectly!!
Don’t forget to log out and log back in again to see the change…
Awesome. I really hate overlay scroll bars.
Thanks a lott! Overlay scrollbars are very uncomfortable and annoying!
If you are using 12.10 or later, run
user$ gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
And to return to the default, run
user$ gsettings reset com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode
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THANK YOU. Remember folks you have to restart (or log out and in?) in order for this to work.
its working…very very thanks man!!
working really cool
This doesn’t work on 14.04. How do I get scrollbars there?
Thanks!
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Perfect, thanks. Had to use wtf’s code.