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How to change the color of the scroll bar?

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The scrollbars in Unity are of very low contrast, and I can't see where the bar is using just peripheral vision. I have to look at the scrollbar.

Look at Mac OS X interface and notice the blue, contrasting scroll bar. You don't need to look at it directly to have the idea where you are in the page.

How can I change it so that it has more contrast and I see where I am every time?

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answered 2 Years ago anxietunnel · Accepted Answer

A bit late, but perhaps I've found a quite nice, easy GUI solution:

gnome-color-chooser

scrollbar settings in Gnome Color Chooser

Highlights:

Completely GUI solution, no need to manually fiddle with ~/.gtkrc

Only changes the settings you check. Uncheck them revert to default.

Changes are applied as soon as you click Apply. No need to switch themes back and forth

No need of sudo (but changes are to your user only)

Applies to "legacy" scrollbars only (the ones that need to be fixed). The "overlay" scrollbar is not modified.

The changes are quite unobtrusive: it edits (or creates) ~/.gtkrc to include its own config file:

include ".gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser"

And that file is pretty slim too:

style "gnome-color-chooser-scrollbar"

{

  bg[NORMAL] = "#ACACAC"

  bg[PRELIGHT] = "#808080"

  bg[ACTIVE] = "#ACACAC"

}

widget_class "*Scrollbar" style "gnome-color-chooser-scrollbar"

Btw, I've picked the above colors out of experiments. They blend in nicely with Ambiance's "monochrome-ish" style, being just a bit darker (and thus more visible) than default.

Until Firefox gets overlay scrollbars, I'm quite happy with my custom colors :)