Unity – Enable Overlay Scrollbars in All Applications

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Is there a way to force all applications to use the Natty overlay scrollbars?

Examples: Chrome doesn't use it, neither does Firefox, gnome-terminal or a host of other applications.

Google Chrome scrollbars

gnome-terminal scrollbars

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There are currently no way to do it. Currently only native Gtk applications support the overlay-scrollbars, additional support will eventually come later on.

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Overlay Scrollbars – How to Disable Overlay Scrollbars

In 12.04 LTS there's a slightly cleaner way to do it. Just run

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars false

in a terminal. Apps opened afterwards will have the non-ayatana scrollbar.

To get the default behavior back, run

gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars

If you are using 12.10 or later, run

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

And to return to the default, run

gsettings reset com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode

Ubuntu – How to enable overlay scrollbars

Make sure you have the packages overlay-scrollbar and liboverlay-scrollbar-0.1-0 installed. (It's possible that you somehow lost the package ubuntu-desktop which usually is responsible for pulling in such new packages.)
Overlay scrollbars only work in a handful of applications right now (easiest to test are probably Nautilus and gedit), so maybe you have just tested the wrong applications.

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Ubuntu – How to enable overlay scrollbars

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