[GoLUG] Modifying the GTk3 scrollbar

[Steve Litt]

I think the CSS has options for paging, but I'm not sure.

SteveT

Wayne said on Sat, 2 Sep 2023 18:03:27 -0700

>Thanks for the tips. I am so glad we can still make changes like this
>in CSS. It is funny though how what one person thinks is wonderful is
>a bane to another. I intentionally disable that mode with CSS since I
>prefer to scroll page-by-page. If I need to jump to the cursor
>position on the scrollbar I just hold down the Shift key when
>clicking. It's nice that we have options.
>
>
>On 9/2/23 4:35 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I absolutely love the GTk3 scrollbar's behavior of bringing the
>> slider to wherever you click on the scrollbar. What a time and
>> effort saver!
>> 
>> However, I find the extremely narrow GTk3 scrollbar inconvenient and
>> hard to click. So I added the following to the end of
>> ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css :
>> 
>> ======================================
>> scrollbar slider {
>>      /* Size of the slider */
>>      min-width: 12px;
>>      min-height: 18px;
>>      border-radius: 14px;
>>      background-color: darkblue;
>>      border: 5px solid black;
>>      border-width: 4px;
>> }
>> 
>> scrollbar slider:hover{
>> 	background-color: white;
>> }
>> 
>> scrollbar slider:active{
>> 	background-color: #66ffff;
>> }
>> ======================================
>> 
>> Now the scrollbar is wider, the slider a little more contrasty (on
>> the dark side) from the scrollbar, and the minute you hover or drag
>> it it changes to much brighter and more contrasty colors. Obviously,
>> everyone wants to set this a little differently, so you'll probably
>> change colors and widths to suit your taste. But now you know
>> exactly how to do that.
>> 
>> SteveT
>> 
>> Steve Litt
>> 
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