From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Javier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: increase scrollbar width Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 23:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450308621 12367 80.91.229.3 (16 Dec 2015 23:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 23:30:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 17 00:30:17 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 1a9LWS-0000qu-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:30:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9LWR-0008Ce-T1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:30:15 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UUY5qzwmBvosbRMVtYoZUQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.18.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216130 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:108420 Archived-At: Which toolkit and OS are you using? It's in the variable system-configuration-options. C-h v system-configuration-options If it is a recent linux distro you are likely using gtk3. My advice is to try the lucid toolkit. You should have a package emacs-lucid or emacs24-lucid in your distro. In lucid by default scrollbars are on the left. Just use (menu-bar-right-scroll-bar) if you want them on the right. Otherwise, with GTK you can try luck customizing the GTK theme. Ulrich Hiller wrote: > Dear list members, > > 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) > > 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? > > Many thanks in advance, ulrich >