Ubuntu – Remove arrows on system tray menus in gnome

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I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 with Gnome and have found the behaviour of the context menus on icons in the system tray behaves differently.

For applets which normally have a large number of menu options (e.g. notes in Tomboy or files in Dropbox) rather than display all the menu icons now only 5 or 6 are displayed and up/down arrows are displayed to scroll to the rest.

Is it possible to revert this behaviour so all menu options are showing without the need to scroll?

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