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overlay-scrollbar package

Add emacs24 to overlay-scrollbars blacklist

Bug #1068373 reported by Ryan Culpepper on 2012-10-18

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This bug affects 13 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	emacs24 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	overlay-scrollbar (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The Emacs (version 24) window has a grey zone on the right where the scroll bar would normally be, but there is no scroll bar actually there, nor does the Unity-style popup scroll bar appear when the mouse is over the right edge of the window.

I've attached a screenshot showing the grey empty space with the missing scrollbar. Note that in the screenshot I've also turned off the emacs "fringe", which in the default configuration adds additional grey space on both sides of the window.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: emacs24 24.1+1-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 18 18:42:45 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/emacs24-x
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120926)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: emacs24
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Ryan Culpepper (ryan-sml) wrote on 2012-10-18:

#1

emacs24 missing scrollbar on right Edit (35.4 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (53.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (811 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (802 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-10-22:

#2

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in emacs24 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Diane Trout (diane-trout) wrote on 2012-10-23:

#3

I've been working around this problem with

LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 emacs24 &

From what I understand from searching whatever library is providing the Ayatana hiding scroll bars has a manually curated blacklist of incompatible applications. Emacs24 should be added to that list.

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Keith McClelland (zismylaptop) wrote on 2013-02-16:

#4

Diane's understanding sounds good. If you poke and poke at the missing scroll bar you can sometimes see a transient and non-functional "hiding" scroll control.

Does anyone know how we can edit that blacklist on our computers?

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era (era) wrote on 2015-06-26:

#5

As per diagnostics in comment #3, added a task for overlay-scrollbar. For background, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/ScrollBars has comments regarding the blacklist towards the end of the page (but if previous history is any indication, the link will be broken by the time you try to click).

summary:

- emacs24 scroll bar not present
+ Add emacs24 to overlay-scrollbars blacklist

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