[GNC] configuring scroll bars

[mcmurchy1917techy]

The full screen / off full screen makes no difference. The character in 
the scroll bar up/down buttons is missing.

So far I've now looked at three GTK3 based applications - gnucash, 
libreoffice and firefox.

For all three applications, I can alter the width of the scrollbar by 
editing the appropriate settings in the file .config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

  * gnucash under normal circumstances doesn't have the up/down
    character in the button at either end of the scrollbar. When a
    dialog is started a character does appear in the up/down buttons of
    the scrollbar, but incorrectly it contains left/right chevrons in
    the buttons.
  * libreoffice doesn't have any up/down character in the button at
    either end of the scrollbar, even if i start one of its dialogs.
  * firefox does have the correct up/down characters in the button at
    either end of the scrollbar.

firefox is interesting  in that it appears to be behaving correctly, so 
it might give me a handle on what the problem is.

Alex

On 18/03/2020 16:47, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Is your main window set to full screen?
>
> If so, do the buttons appear properly when you take it off full screen?
>
> A quick work around might be to size the window to fill the screen but not use the full-screen setting. Then you know where to look for a setting or report a bug to either GTK or Plasma.
>
> Do your QT apps behave the same way?
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>> On Mar 18, 2020 w12d78, at 9:21 AM, mcmurchy1917techy via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> My system is
>>
>>    Slackware Current
>>    KDE5 Plasma
>>
>> with
>>
>>    gtk+3    3.24.14
>>    linux    5.4.25
>>    gnucash  3.8
>>
>> I have a config file .config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css which contains the folllowing
>>
>>> @import 'colors.css';
>>>
>>> scrollbar {
>>>    -GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: true;
>>>    -GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: true;
>>> }
>>>
>>> scrollbar, scrollbar button, scrollbar slider {
>>>     min-width: 24px;
>>>     min-height: 36px;
>> This gives me a wide vertical scroll bar with a block at each end where the up and down arrows for the scrollbar are supposed to go, under normal operation the blocks are blank/empty they don't contain the up/down arrows.
>>
>> If I click the blocks at each end of the scroll bar they behave as scrolling up and down as would be expected.
>>
>> If I open up a dialog like File->Properties the character < appears in the top block and the character > appears in the bottom block of the vertical scroll bar. When the dialog is closed these characters disappear.
>>
>> So two questions
>>
>> 1. How do I get the correct characters to appear at each end of the
>>    scrollbar i.e. the upward pointing arrow and the downward pointing
>>    arrow?
>> 2. How do I get these characters to display under normal operation i.e.
>>    other then when displaying a dialog box?
>>
>> Thanks
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