From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Scrollbar moved Date: 24 Aug 2004 01:39:57 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093304449 19540 80.91.224.253 (23 Aug 2004 23:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 24 01:40:39 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BzOQZ-0007nN-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzOV2-0006L9-Ec for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:45:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de P4BzoRG/s9MYBUq9AbLsqwftTT+7TFoy/vw1WsXMsXODxDRJx1 X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124896 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20245 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20245 Michael Satterwhite writes: > I'm running emacs on Debian sarge under KDE. I have no idea what I've done, > but the scrollbars have moved from the right side of the screen to the left > side of the screen. I know it works the same, but it's driving me crazy for > it to be on the "wrong" side. > > Can anyone let me know how to move it back to the right? They are on the right side. Scroll bars are clicked on with the mouse, and the mouse will be more useful near the left border than near the right border when you are editing (unless you happen to type Hebrew or Arabic texts). When you partly obscur your editor window and want to scroll it, you are much more likely to have the right side obscured, and thus the scroll bars inaccessible. Scrolling a window of which you can only see the left half makes much more sense than scrolling a window of which you see only the right half. Do M-x customize-variable RET scroll-bar-mode RET to change that setting, but if you want to use the scroll bars effectively, it would be a good idea to try them on the left for a while. It was not mere stupidity that moved them there. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum