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Bug 675700 - hard to use scrollbars on multimonitor setups
hard to use scrollbars on multimonitor setups
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-05-08 18:49 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2021-07-05 14:23 UTC
See Also:
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Description William Jon McCann 2012-05-08 18:49:04 UTC 
If you have a monitor to the right of the current workspace it is quite hard to hit the scrollbars when the window is maximized. This is partly because some are accustomed to throwing the mouse at the screen edge. It appears as a barrier after all.

It would be nice if we could add a little bit of resistance there to make it easier to target.

We probably don't this if we are in drag and drop mode.

We may only need this in the proximity of the scrollbar handle.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2015-10-13 09:00:47 UTC 
I think we only show a scroll bar for search results now. This is still an issue there, though.
Comment 2 Allan Day 2015-10-13 09:04:35 UTC 
(In reply to Allan Day from comment #1)
> I think we only show a scroll bar for search results now. This is still an
> issue there, though.

Sorry, I thought this was about the shell's scroll bars, but it's clearly about scroll bars in apps.
Comment 3 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2015-10-13 14:34:15 UTC 
(In reply to Allan Day from comment #2)
> (In reply to Allan Day from comment #1)
> > I think we only show a scroll bar for search results now. This is still an
> > issue there, though.
> 
> Sorry, I thought this was about the shell's scroll bars, but it's clearly
> about scroll bars in apps.

Even so, we also show a scrollbar in the Wi-Fi dialog, and in the notifications list.
Comment 4 Florian Müllner 2015-10-13 14:37:43 UTC 
(In reply to Jasper St. Pierre from comment #3)
> Even so, we also show a scrollbar in the Wi-Fi dialog, and in the
> notifications list.

Neither of those is located on a monitor edge though, so there's no difference at all to single-monitor setups.
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 14:23:29 UTC 
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