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