GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 795859
Overlay scrollbars
Last modified: 2019-11-20 22:46:37 UTC
Have you ever considered using overlay scrollbars? I've made this an option in ROXTerm and I prefer it enabled. I tend to use the scrollbars in a terminal less than in other typical applications, and on a laptop I appreciate the extra space. It makes sense to be rid of them especially when using something like vim. IIRC you use a GtkBox containing the VteTerminal widget and the scrollbar, instead of using GtkScrolledWindow, so it might seem like a difficult change. However, I was doing the same in ROXTerm; it didn't take me long to make the change and I didn't have a hard time with unwanted side-effects.
> and I didn't have a hard time with unwanted side-effects. Didn't you hit https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/1122 ?
No, I haven't noticed anything like that. I've been using roxterm as my main terminal on a couple of different PCs since releasing 3.5.x with overlay scrollbars. Anyway, I prefer to keep options in if they only cause problems for some people and only when enabled.
I think the bug Egmont is pointing to was specific to Mate and it's usage of the GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 environment variable. In Tilix I worked around the issue by simply using a normal scrollbar when that variable is present rather then an overlay. That aside, there are some minor issues with VTE and overlay scrollbar that get reported against tilix from time to time. None of them have been serious enough where I felt the need to turn off using the overlay as the default.
This is mostly duplicate of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733210 . *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 733210 ***