f-18 scfolling -

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 01/16/2013 09:54 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>
>
>     Something has happened to the ability to scroll smoothly in
>     Thunderbird since upgrading two computers to F-18/64/XFCE. In the
>     past there has been a spot at the top and bottom of the scroll bar
>     where you could increment the scroll gradually. That is no longer
>     there in Thunderbird or Firefox. In the case of one directory in
>     Thunderbird where I have 6400 e-mail messages I can scroll using the
>     button but moving it about 5cm on the screen goes through all 6400
>     messages in the list, hardly fine grained!
>
>     This computer was upgraded from F-17 via "fedup' while the other one
>     was simply yum updated from F-18 beta. Both have the same scrolling
>     affliction.
>
>     Have I done something wrong?
I have gone through the same issue on a mouse-less, old synaptics 
touchpad-only system (no gestures, no multi-tap).

In my case, something during the upgrade to f17 has changed xfce's 
"Appearance/Style" to using "Adwaita"-style. This style lacks "arrows" 
on scrollbars and therefore hardly usable in scenarios like yours or mine.

Changing "Appearance/Style" to a different "style" through
"Application Menu"->"Settings"->"Appearance"->"Style"
brought back the "arrows".

Ralf


P.S.: I am facing other issues with Gtk/Gnome based packages under xfwm, 
esp. gnome-terminal, e.g.
- gnome-terminal seems to use black letters on black background by default.
- changing the "style" as described above lets open gnome-terminals 
shrink and sometimes hang.