On Friday, October 12, 2018 1:24:25 PM CDT Elliott Balsley wrote:
I agree that issue with the scroll bar jumping all over is really annoying! It is actually a feature of Gnome and GTK. It can be changed by editing a file:
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings] gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=0
I also find this behavior annoying. I tried adding this settings file (it didn't exist) and logging out and back in, but Firefox still jumps do the absolute location on the scrollbar. I'm on CentOS 7.3.
Hmmm... It works for me on both CentOS 7 (Firefox 60.2.1) and Fedora 28 (Firefox 62.0.3).
As per the linked documentation - What happens if you SHIFT-CLICK on the scroll bar? On my systems I find that SHIFT-CLICK on the scroll bar produces the "warp speed" behavior, exactly as expected.
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-...
Back to the original question - I wonder if the chosen GTK theme has something to do with the disappearance of the up and down arrows on the scroll bar? I found a note on the Ubuntu forums that implicates the theme. Testing required!
Bill Gee