Want my scrollbar back

Want my scrollbar back

[Siegfried Gonzi]

Hi:

Since a few weeks my scrollbar on the right side of my Emacs window is 
void. I am not sure what is going on under the hood, but I find it hard 
to work without scrollbars, because I use my mouse and have never red 
any Emacs manuals.

What will I have do to in order to get my scrollbars back?

Thanks,
Siegfried

Re: Want my scrollbar back

[Siegfried Gonzi]

Siegfried Gonzi wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Since a few weeks my scrollbar on the right side of my Emacs window is 
> void. I am not sure what is going on under the hood, but I find it hard 
> to work without scrollbars, because I use my mouse and have never red 
> any Emacs manuals.
> 
> What will I have do to in order to get my scrollbars back?

My version:

GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-suse-linux, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 
2002-03-25 on stephens

Re: Want my scrollbar back

[David Kastrup]

Siegfried Gonzi <siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at> writes:

> Since a few weeks my scrollbar on the right side of my Emacs window is
> void. I am not sure what is going on under the hood, but I find it
> hard to work without scrollbars, because I use my mouse and have never
> red any Emacs manuals.
> 
> What will I have do to in order to get my scrollbars back?

The reverse of what you did to make them disappear.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Want my scrollbar back

[Siegfried Gonzi]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Siegfried Gonzi <siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at> writes:
> 
> 
>>Since a few weeks my scrollbar on the right side of my Emacs window is
>>void. I am not sure what is going on under the hood, but I find it
>>hard to work without scrollbars, because I use my mouse and have never
>>red any Emacs manuals.
>>
>>What will I have do to in order to get my scrollbars back?
>>
> 
> The reverse of what you did to make them disappear.
> 
> 

Nothing! I have never changed any settings.

Re: Want my scrollbar back

[Johan Bockgård]

Siegfried Gonzi <siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at> writes:

> Hi:
>
> Since a few weeks my scrollbar on the right side of my Emacs window is
> void. I am not sure what is going on under the hood, but I find it
> hard to work without scrollbars, because I use my mouse and have never
> red any Emacs manuals.

What does C-h v scroll-bar-mode say? Does M-x scroll-bar-mode do anything?

/Johan

Re: Want my scrollbar back

[Kai Großjohann]

Siegfried Gonzi <siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at> writes:

> Since a few weeks my scrollbar on the right side of my Emacs window is
> void. I am not sure what is going on under the hood, but I find it
> hard to work without scrollbars, because I use my mouse and have never
> red any Emacs manuals.
>
> What will I have do to in order to get my scrollbars back?

If you start Emacs via "emacs -q -no-site-file", do you then have
scrollbars?  If so, then there is a problem in your init files.  If
"emacs -q" has scrollbars, the problem is in ~/.emacs, otherwise the
problem is in site-start.el or default.el.

-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.

Re: Want my scrollbar back

[Siegfried Gonzi]

Johan Bockgård wrote:

> 
> What does C-h v scroll-bar-mode say? Does M-x scroll-bar-mode do anything?


it says:

"scroll-bar-mode's value is nil"

I have to stress here that I  never changed any default Emacs files. I 
have a mirror of my Linux installation (on my laptop) at my working 
place at the university, there everything is okay.

A few weeks ago I installed Emacs (via SuSE's Yast) anew, but even the 
new installation does not show any scroll-bars.