Re: Scroll bars on macOS builds

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>]

> Il 04/01/2022 12:08 Alan Third ha scritto:
> 
>  
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 07:41:38PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> > > Il 02/01/2022 15:20 Alan Third ha scritto:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 10:58:51PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> > > > It seems I do not see the scroll bars on macOS builds even if in my
> > > > init.el I have (for a long time)
> > > > 
> > > > (horizontal-scroll-bar-mode 1)
> > > > 
> > > > also the vertical bar is absent and with buffers with a lot of lines
> > > > the only way to know in which "position" one is along the buffer is
> > > > to read the indication on the mode line, xy%.
> > > 
> > > It looks fine here. Do you see the scroll bars if you run "emacs -Q"?
> > 
> > No, see Emacs-Q.png in the tarball. I started Emacs with
> > 
> > cd /MyApps/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS
> > ./Emacs -Q
> > 
> > The other image (Emacs-Dock.png) in the tarball refers to Emacs started from the Dock.
> > 
> > Emacs was built this morning from master (01615b24da97bdb5cc4eaec5792da8238dab9942). See my OP for configure options used. My build script creates a tarbal with the Emacs.app folder which I then install in /MyApps. As I wrote the OS is 10.13.6.
> > 
> > I think I had scroll bars in previous builds. For this reason I had put
> > 
> > (horizontal-scroll-bar-mode 1)
> > 
> > in my init.el. But, now, I have lost the tarball for old build and I cannot check them.
> 
> Do the scrollbars work if you click where they should be?

I did this test a few days ago and it looks as if the scroll bars are "hidden"... This seems to confirm I had them in old builds..

> Can you try loading a theme with a dark background (wombat, for
> example)? They might be displaying as white on white. I don't think
> they should do that themselves, but I have seen that sort of thing
> before.
> 
> Failing that, do they ever appear? For example when resizing the
> frame do they flicker in and out of existence or anything?

..I cannot do other tests because the MBP had the battery that was growing up so I had to take it to maintenance.. :-( 

It will be a while before I get back to using it. (I asked also to change the HD into SSD..)

Ciao,
 Angelo.