GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 752335
Horizontal overlay scrollbar blocks last line selection
Last modified: 2020-11-24 09:58:57 UTC
When gedit displays horizontal scrollbars (e.g. with long unbroken strings à la ~/.ssh/known_hosts), the last line cannot be selected with the mouse, as the horizontal overlay scrollbar appears when mousing over the line. Same issue applies to the right-most character on any line. Two possible fixes: * Add padding to the right/bottom the width of the scrollbars, so when they appear they don't cover anything. * Disable overlay scrollbars for gedit.
See also bug #738894.
This is an irritating bug in the scrollbars. It has been noted (and I added to it) over at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1516713 but it was suggested that bug is better suited here.
To all people searching for a solution. Set the environment variable GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING to 0 to get around this annoying feature. In one line on the console: GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 <applicationname> You might want to set this variable globally for example in ~/.xsessionrc.
Mass-closing of all gedit bugzilla tickets. Special "code" to find again all those gedit bugzilla tickets that were open before the mass-closing: 2bfe1b0590a78457e1f1a6a90fb975f5878cb60064ccfe1d7db76ca0da52f0f3 By searching the above sha256sum in bugzilla, the gedit contributors can find again the tickets. We may be interested to do so when we work on a specific area of the code, to at least know the known problems and possible enhancements. We do this mass-closing because bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org.