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

I found that the GTK theme I use also has a settings.ini file, which sets gtk-primary-button-warps-slider to false. I wouldn't expect it to take precedence over the user specific file, but it does....

posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Quasímodo‭ · 2022-02-14T20:51:14Z (about 2 years ago)
I found that the GTK theme I use also has a `settings.ini` file, which sets _gtk-primary-button-warps-slider_ to false. I wouldn't expect it to take precedence over the user specific file, but it does.

It is easy to edit a single file for your current theme; If you want to do it for all themes in one go, for convenience here is a command to find all `settings.ini` files for all your themes and enforce the _true_ value for that option:

    find "$HOME"/.themes "$XDG_DATA_HOME" -type f -name 'settings.ini' \
      -exec sed -i.bak '/gtk-primary-button-warps-slider/s/=.*/=true/' {} +

It creates `settings.ini.bak` backup files, so in case something goes wrong you can revert it.

Also there is the system wide `/usr/share/themes` directory, but these are supposed to be intact since they are packaged by your GNU Linux distribution. Nothing prevents you from editing those files too with root access, though.

[1]: https://wiki.parabola.nu/GTK%2B#Configuration