Overlay Scrollbars Disappear

**jim_deadlock** · May 10th, 2013

I'm running 13.04 + Gnome Shell 3.8.1 (the same problem applies if I switch to Unity)

With apps that have the overlay scrollbars (eg Nautilus, Gedit) the overlay appears the first time I mouse over it and works fine, but then if I try it again it doesn't appear at all. Restarting the app resets it so that it works again the first time. Any ideas?

**dino99** · May 10th, 2013

are you using some ppas ? maybe a libcairo issue
how many overlay-scrollbar package installed ?

**jim_deadlock** · May 10th, 2013

The only PPAs I have are: Google Earth; Grub Customizer; Medibuntu; Gnome3

I don't think any of those are relevant but I could be wrong.

**mc4man** · May 10th, 2013

Originally Posted by jim_deadlock

The only PPAs I have are: Google Earth; Grub Customizer; Medibuntu; Gnome3

I don't think any of those are relevant but I could be wrong.

gnome3 ppa is certainly relevant, overlay scrollbars are broken with it.

**jim_deadlock** · May 10th, 2013

fair enough!

I found the bug report thanks - https://bugs.launchpad.net/overlay-s...r/+bug/1174927

**mc4man** · May 10th, 2013

Hopefully they'll find a fix that doesn't need re-repair down the road (with Ubuntu now staying 1 release behind gnome

With the latest gtk/gnome the scrollbars work but are huge (only tested with a unity session