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How do I make the scrollbars wider?

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I'm using Gnome 64-bit edition with the classic desktop and I don't have overlay scrollbars installed. My question is, how can I make the scrollbars wider? They're too thin for me to hit as quickly or accurately as I'd like. Is there a setting I can change in the theme files or d/gconf somewhere? Thanks for your help!

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answered 1 Year ago confiorc · Accepted Answer

This gets about half of them:

Add the following lines to ~/.gtkrc-2.0

style "scroll"

{

    GtkScrollbar::slider-width        = 40

}



class "*" style "scroll"

It works for firefox, kicad, and several others.

And this seems to get the other half:

For the rest (the gtk3 stuff, I guess), I copied the theme I was using from /usr/share/themes into ~/.themes and gave it a new name, "MyTheme". Then in ~/.themes/MyTheme/gtk-3.0, I found the css file containing "-GtkScrollbar-slider-width:" and changed the value there. I used the gnome tweak tool to select my new theme. Now my sliders are all 40 pixels wide!