November 21, 2011

How to Disable the Overlay Scrollbar in Ubuntu 11.01 and 11.10

How to Disable the Overlay Scrollbar in Ubuntu 11.01 and 11.10

I like the new look of Unity, but there is one thing that keeps bugging me and that is the new Overlay Scrollbar. To remove it, do the following from the Terminal.

First you need to become root
$ sudo su

Then export the following setting:
$ echo export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars

Last reboot and voilà the classical scrollbar is back.

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