Change Width, Color on side scroll bar?

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  1. lucygrl

    lucygrl Registered Member

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    The side scroll bar on Linux Mint is a bit narrow and hard to see for me, how can I change the Width and Color?
     
  2. ellison64

    ellison64 Registered Member

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    Do you mean the side scroll bar in firefox running on mint?.Im using linux mint and not sure what you mean?
     
  3. lucygrl

    lucygrl Registered Member

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    Yes, the side scroll bar in firefox running on mint. How can I widen it and change the color?
     
  4. ellison64

    ellison64 Registered Member

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    Im not sure you can do it using mint settings,but using a different Firefox theme such as aeon big enlarges the icons and colourizes and widens the scroll bar.
     
  5. SpikeyB

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    Are far as I am aware Fx uses your Gtk2 settings so you have to change it in the Gtk-2.0 directory of the theme you are using. The theme files are stored in one or both of two places:
    ~.themes and/or
    usr\share\themes

    If you are not used to creating themes I suspect it will not be simple first time around. I can help you if you need so let me know.
     
  6. lucygrl

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    Thankyou, just installed it and it is great, it widens the scroll bar and makes the color a nice blue. The icons , etc on the top are also bigger. Im very happy with it except one thing, just right about the web page there is a blank grey bar of about half an inch. Any way to get rid of that?
     
  7. lucygrl

    lucygrl Registered Member

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    Thankyou, can you give me a step by step guide how to do this?
     
  8. mack_guy911

    mack_guy911 Registered Member

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    lucy girl i guess you should go to settings

    themes

    get more themes and install void theme


    its make pretty clear scroll bar not big but still pretty good........:))
     

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    PM sent.
     
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