Nautilus Scroll Bar size.

**Swagman** · October 13th, 2015

I've upgraded my monitor to a IIyama 28" 4k jobbie and obviously everything went to a miniscule size. I've been using Kubuntu for the passed few months and managed to adjust everything to my liking but alas Kubuntu got a Plasma desktop crash and I couldn't fix it so I Nuked it (it was 32 bit version anyway) and installed Ubuntu 15:04 fresh.

Ubuntu picked up most stuff straight off the bat with only minor tweaking needed but the damned scroll bars in Nautilus just don't do anything and I can't find a setting to increase their size.

Please note.. I'm talking about NAUTILUS NOT programs.

Yes I can use the scroll wheel of my trackball but that's not ideal when you have a shedload of files to scroll through !

I've made a short vid capture to show what res I'm running at and the issue with the scroll bars (Vid is in HD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iYgn7zjj0w

How in the heck do I increase the size and actually make them work like they're supposed to ?

**v3.xx** · October 13th, 2015

I do not know of a way to change just Nautilus, but you should be able to do this in the theme your using.

/usr/share/themes/NAME-OF-THEME/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css

and about 3/4 of the way down

Code:

/************
* scrollbar *
*************/
.scrollbar
-GtkRange-slider-width:

May not be the fix your looking for, but maybe worth a try.

Good luck

**mcduck** · October 13th, 2015

HAve you somehow disabled the overlay scrollbars? When you hover the mouse cursor near the scrollbar area you should see a larger scrollbar handle (with up & down buttons) appear next to it. The tiny scollbar visible in your video is just a visual indicator, not the bit you are expected to use to scroll with.

Try running this in a terminal:

Code:

gsettings reset com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode

If that doesn't do it, make sure the overlay-scrollbar package is installed, and try specifically setting the scrollbar mode:

Code:

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode overlay-auto

(or to force normal scrollbars instead

Code:

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

**Swagman** · October 13th, 2015

Thanks for the replies guys.

overlay-scrollbar is installed but nothing would make it work as it should included the first suggestion of editing the scrollbar width.

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

Has done the trick and I'm happy with it, so that's a win !

Cheers