Re: thunderbird missing arrows for scrolling through list of email messages
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 02:46:38PM +0000, charlie derr wrote:
> Greetings fine free software people.
>
> A number of years ago, the little arrows at the top and bottom of the
> scrollbar to the right of my "message list" view in thunderbird (I'm
> currently using debian stable) disappeared. As I have a huge number of
> emails in my work inbox (not this account), this means that in order to
> "gradually" move backwards or forwards through the list of messages, I am
> forced to use mouse/trackpad/scrollwheel features (usually two fingers on
> my trackpad) as there is not enough "granularity" for me to pick up the
> scrollbar and move it (there's no way I can be accurate enough not to jump
> past many hundreds or even thousands of messages when I do this).
>
> I use KDE on one computer and Gnome Classic on others. Neither of these
> seems to provide for the "old school" arrows at the top and bottom of the
> scrollbar in the GUI which I can click on and hold (it used to be possible
> to do this and then have the messages scroll by at a speed which allowed
> me to notice what's going by and stop when i see a subject, recipient or
> sender that is relevant and so which I want to stop and open the message).
>
> Any clue whether it's possible (by using a different window manager,
> configuring something in tbird, and/or by other means) to regain that
> older (and for me, very useful!) functionality, GUI-feature, or whatever
> the proper way to describe/categorize these widgets that disappeared might
> be?
>
> thanks so very very much in advance for any links to documentation,
> direction, guidance, advice, information, etc... ~c
>
> P.S. CCs directly to me are fine (but I'll check the list for a few days
> too).
>
I've been waiting and hoping you'd get an answer, because I have exactly
the same problem and I haven't found a solution.
I haven't figured out if this is off topic or not because I'm not sure if
this is an issue in Thunderbird itself or if it has something to do with the
desktop. Since you use both KDE and Gnome whereas I use XFCE4 it looks
suspiciously like it's a T-bird issue, but many people in the threads listed
below seem to say it's limited to the linux version and not a problem on the
Windows version.
On Mozilla support this problem has been discussed quite a few times (1)
over the last 6 or 7 years and I haven't tried every suggestion there, but I
didn't see any definitive solutions.
I've been thinking of movng from T-bird to something else like Claws Mail to
solve the problem but haven't gotten around to it since I usually use Mutt
and only use T-bird on occasions when it's necessary to use a GUI interface.
(1) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1221689
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1349122
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1274081
https://support.mozilla.org/mk/questions/1161675
Don
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