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Comments on Make left-click warp the scrollbar thumb position instead of paging down/up

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Make left-click warp the scrollbar thumb position instead of paging down/up

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I want the scrollbar to wrap to the pointer location when I click in an empty space (a.k.a. the trough or track) of it. What happens instead is that the scrollbar thumb just displaces the equivalent of a page down/up — tested on Firefox, GIMP and Abiword.

Using Shift as a modifier while clicking gives me the desired behavior, but I don't want to press Shift.

Things seem backwards because the documented behavior is the one I want, and it is even mentioned in GTK blog: A scrolling primer.

I tried to explicitly add

[Settings]
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = true

to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini as suggested by Parabola Wiki but the behavior did not change. It doesn't even seem to be noticed by GTK:

$ gtk-query-settings warps
    gtk-primary-button-warps-slider: FALSE

Which is weird because other settings such as gtk-theme-name set in that same file do take effect and are reported by gtk-query-settings.

Is there any solution or workaround to this?

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Try looking for settings in other directories? (3 comments)
Try looking for settings in other directories?
Moshi‭ wrote over 2 years ago

According to https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/class.Settings.html it looks like it checks a number of places for settings.ini files. For me, it was under /etc/gtk-3.0

Quasímodo‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Moshi‭ As documented, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0 (that amounts to ~/.config/gtk-3.0) is also one of those places, and the fact that I can successfully change my theme there confirms it is a working location. Indeed, appending the warp setting to /etc/gtk-3.0 also has no effect. But thanks for your suggestion.

Moshi‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Quasímodo‭ I was thinking maybe that you had more than one setting.ini file and one of them was taking precedence, though it seems it's not the case here.