From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: increase scrollbar width Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:58:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <56717B07.6090604@mpia-hd.mpg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450285148 3186 80.91.229.3 (16 Dec 2015 16:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:59:08 +0000 (UTC) To: Ulrich Hiller , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 17:58:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a9FPh-0008Jn-Ha for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:58:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9FPg-0001vp-Uv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:58:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40553) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9FPQ-0001vj-A0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:58:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9FPL-0006qA-QW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:33513) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9FPL-0006pu-Hr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:58:31 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tBGGwRKM025029 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:58:28 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBGGwRIh028780 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:58:27 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0014.oracle.com (abhmp0014.oracle.com [141.146.116.20]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBGGwRwC013912; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:58:27 GMT In-Reply-To: <56717B07.6090604@mpia-hd.mpg.de> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108418 Archived-At: > i have possibly a newbie question: I want to increase the size of the > vertical scroll bar. Therefor is the frame parameter scroll-bar-width. > So i set in ~/.emacs: (setq-default scroll-bar-width 50) >=20 > What i get is a 50 pt wide scrollbar frame, but the scrollbar itself > remains at the default value. > How can i increase the with of the scrollbar itself? Not sure what you mean by the scrollbar frame. Doing (setq-default scroll-bar-width 50) works for me (on MS Windows) - it gives me a scroll bar that has a width of 50. Scroll bars depend on your platform, and whether Emacs was built to use a toolkit (and which toolkit). You might want to file a bug (`M-x report-emacs-bug'), but it's possible that nothing can be done about this on your platform etc.