Is there a way to blacklist an individual application from using overlay-scrollbars?

Question

I am having problems with some programs when using overlay-scrollbars, mainly Code::Blocks and Eclipse. Is there a way to blacklist only this applications from using the new scrollbars? I've found several ways of disabling the overlay scrollbars completely, for all applications, but I like them and I don't want to do this. Thanks you

Answer 1

I am going to answer my own question. Thanks to the user "SevenMachines" in ubuntuforums, I've found a way to disable overlay scrollbars for a specific application. I did a shell script with the following (for eclipse, for example):

#!/bin/sh
LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 eclipse

Then, make it executable, and using the "Menu editor", changed eclipse to point to the script.

Answer 2

Alternatively, in your .bashrc add the following

alias eclipse="LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 eclipse"

In fact, you may also want to add UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 so unity menus work properly with eclipse, so that becomes:

alias eclipse="UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 eclipse"

[Note: that this will only take effect once you restart your bash shell]

Answer 3

/usr/bin/eclipse is a start script by itself. You can edit this in a text editor and add the following lines (the same as mentioned in other answers), below the line GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true.

export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0

Answer 4

You could edit the .desktop File like this:

cp /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

...then put...

env LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0

to the Exec Field that the file looks afterwards like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Development;IDE;Java;
Comment=Eclipse Integrated Development Environment
Exec=env LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 eclipse
Icon=eclipse
Name=Eclipse
Terminal=false
Type=Application

I use the unity-launcher-editor to easily change this via a GUI.

Answer 5

A more generic alternative to the above answers would be this simple script that I called "regular-scrollbars":

#!\bin\sh
LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 $1

Save that someplace on your path, and then you can use the menu editor to add "regular-scrollbars" before any command you want (as long as it only has one argument - try "@$" if you think you'll need more than one).

This means you won't have to make a new script for any other programs you want to revert to the old scrollbars.

I really like the bashrc alias example too though, you could probably make it more generic by providing a list of programs you want to revert and having bashrc loop over them, adding the aliases.

Answer 6

For the specific issue of overlay scrollbars in Eclipse, I was able to get them working properly by following the instructions in this blog post and a related Ubuntu question.

You edit the eclipse launch script.

sudo gedit /usr/bin/eclipse

And comment out an environment variable that is working around some old bugs that are supposedly now fixed.

#export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true

The next time I launched Eclipse, the scroll bars worked.