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How can I change the scrollbar width in KDE Plasma 5.9.4 on Ubuntu 17.04?

The Application Style dialog box no longer contains this setting.

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In KUbuntu 20.04 I found by changing some numbers in: /usr/share/themes/Breeze/gtk-3.0

Towards the end, in my case lines starting at line 38456, fixed my problem.

scrollbar trough {
    transition-duration: 0.1s;
    min-width: 20px;
}

and

scrollbar:hover trough {
    background-color: mix(@theme_unfocused_bg_color,@theme_unfocused_fg_color,0.7);
    min-width: 18px;
}
scrollbar:hover slider {
    min-width: 18px;
}
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  • It would be wiser to add these fixes to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css rather than altering main theme gtk.css directly. One more point: these fixes alter only vertical scrollbar. To change the horizontal one scrollbar.horizontal trough and scrollbar.horizontal slider selectors should be used also.
    – whtyger
    Commented Oct 3, 2022 at 18:32
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I don't know about 17.04, but in 18.04 you can select the Oxygen style, which has a setting for the scrollbar width. The default Breeze does not.

For gtk applications I created my own theme in ~/.themes based on an existing one in /usr/share/themes and modified gtk.css to make the scrollbar larger. This is easier with gtk-3.20 than with previous versions, you just have to increase some min-width in the Scrollbars section, and optionally the border-radius. In 3.18 and earlier you have to increase the stretch dimensions for many elements, in the same file.

Still, I wish developers would just use at least 20 pixels for a scrollbar by default, it's not too much out of 1920 pixels and these are well spent pixels...

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