On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> 28 okt 2011 kl. 17:22 skrev Chong Yidong:
>
> > "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> >
> >> Can you give a screenshot?  I think scrollbar width must be the same
> >> width as character width.  This simplifies things when you have two
> >> windows next to each other and a scroll bar between them.
> >
> > You should be able to see the issue with
> >
> > (set-frame-parameter nil 'scroll-bar-width 100)
> > (set-frame-parameter nil 'scroll-bar-width 10)
> >
> > Emacs 23 appears to have the same problem.
>
>
> Thanks Jan for following up on these even after I failed to provide a
screenshot.


>  This is not the same thing as what the OP said.  He changed the theme
> values, the above only change the Emacs values.
> Most theme scroll bars can not be resized.  So Emacs always use the theme
> values for the scroll bars.  So if the theme values changes, Emacs should
> use them.
>
> But the OP didn't say which Gtk+ version, which theme and which Emacs
> version he was using.
>

 GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of
2011-11-03 on lychee, modified by Debian

Gtk theme is Murrine Brave Dark.

I modified these lines in gtkrc

    GtkRange       ::slider-width        = 10 # Scrollbar width.
    GtkRange       ::stepper-size        = 0 # Stepper height.

This is what the scrollbars look like in most other apps:

http://jaderholm.com/tmp/2011-11-04-scroll1.png

(though Gedit and Gvim both display them wrong)

This is what they look like in Emacs by default:

http://jaderholm.com/tmp/2011-11-04-scroll2.png

Note that the slider is the right width, it's just the trough that is wrong.

If I use (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(scroll-bar-width . 10)) then
they look correct:

http://jaderholm.com/tmp/2011-11-04-scroll3.png

I've seen this in other themes that I haven't modified myself.

Scott