[GNC] "Non-sticky" scroll bars in gnucash registers

[Colin Law]

I am not seeing any problems on Ubuntu 18.10 running GC 3.4.  Confused by
the fact you say you are running 3.900 as I think 3.4 is the latest.

Are you running the standard (Gnome) version of Ubuntu?  Are you using X or
Wayland? That should be selectable from logon screen.  I am running X.

Colin

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 16:55, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For two years something seemed not quite right about the use of scroll
> bars in Gnucash register windows, but I always just "lived with it" in a
> state of vague , not quite conscious annoyance.
>
> I have finally put my finger on the problem.
>
> When I click in the scroller and move my mouse, whenever the mouse
> leaves the scroll bar area the display snaps back to where it was before
> the scroll operation.  I initially tried to carefully keep the mouse
> within the scroll bar area, and that does prevent the display from
> snapping back - but my new ephiphany is this:  If I do manage not to
> stray from the bounds of the scroll bar before releasing the mouse
> button, then the display stays where my scrolling action left it BUT,
> the moment I subsequently move the mouse out of the scroll bar area, the
> display snaps to its previous position.  In particular this makes it
> impossible to edit an entry that was out of the visible scrolling area
> but became visible after scrolling, as it is gone before I can click it.
>   The only way to get to a row not visible is by using the arrow keys or
> PgUp, PgDown.  Ironically, pressing those keys does move the scroller.
>
> I am running GNUCash version 3.900, which I built from source on
> 2018-06-03 on Ubuntu 18.04.
>
> This is highly irritating and non-standard behavior, I think.  Other
> apps do not handle scrolling this way, such as the Thunderbird Mail
> inbox, Libre Office Calc, etc.  I was not able to find a setting that
> would govern this behavior.  Do others experience this, or is it a bug?
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