Re: Thunderbiird's (from moziila.org) scroll bars are too wide
On 07/24/2017 10:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Georgi Naplatanov composed on 2017-07-24 18:02 (UTC+0300):
>
>> I'm using Debian 9 and KDE.
>
>> I downloaded FireFox Developer edition and Thunderbird (both from
>> mozilla.org website) and Thunderbird's scroll bars are about twice wider
>> than FireFox's ones. Can this behavior be configured on Debian or is it
>> an issue with Thunderbird.
>
> Those are GTK scrollbars, controlled initially by whatever theme(s) are
> installed and selected.
>
>> There is a screenshot.
>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/wplie8ujosxe1du/firefox-thunderb-scrollbar.png?dl=0
>
> Firefox's are a too narrow sourge on users with limited hand-pointing device
> coordination and/or vision, which Plasma unfortunately copied from Gnome.
>
> Check about:buildconfig in TB. Maybe you got a version build with GTK2. FB is
> built with GTK3. GTK has ultimate control of scrollbar width, which for GTK3 you
> can fine tune through ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css.
Hi Felix,
thanks for your explanation. I checked and official Mozilla's
Thunderbird build uses GTK3. The file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css didn't
exist in my home directory and I copied
/usr/share/themes/Breeze/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
to
~/.config/gtk-3.0/
and changed line #3133 from
min-width: 14px;
to
min-width: 7px;
This line is under
scrollbar button
selector and scrollbars are now tiny :)
Thank you very much.
Kind regards
Georgi
> cf.
> http://twicetwo.com/blog/linux/gtk/theme/customization/2016/05/04/per-user-gtk-customization.html
>
> see also
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/noiascrollbars/
>
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