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Well off-topic: Scroll bars universally suck nowadays. Maybe my "mouse accuracy" isn't what it used to be - since giving up first person shooters 16 years ago

Well off-topic: Scroll bars universally suck nowadays. Maybe my "mouse accuracy" isn't what it used to be - since giving up first person shooters 16 years ago - but I shouldn't need railgun accuracy to hit a fucking scroll bar 99% of the time. Why are they a single pixel wide these days, it's not like screen-width is expensive real-estate these days, is this Apple/Ive design principles gone mad? And then there's the page resizing when the scroll bar appears that makes it look as if the whole screen has refreshed, and then it re-refreshes without the scroll-bar in the intervening time that I paused my actions wondering why the screen refreshed in the first place. /end old man rant.

SoftTalker 3y ago
The page-up and page-down keys, as well as the arrow keys, should also work for scrolling, but often don't because of hijacked scrolling events.
- gdprrrr 3y ago
  Also space, shift-space, home, end, and middle-click-drag
WanderPanda 3y ago
Thats why I love the minimap in VS code, it is basically an enlarged scrollbar!
giancarlostoro 3y ago
I agree. I've also noticed, ctrl + c, ctrl + v fails really often, especially on chat apps, and I realized why: they'll copy your chatbox contents (empty) if you accidentally press ctrl + c, and so whatever you copied is now gone. I was going nuts because it could happen to me on every single OS I would use, copy and paste is like being destroyed by "helpful" application designs. If I'm not highlighting text, don't copy for me! I'm looking at you Teams, Discord and maybe Slack?
- Propelloni 3y ago
  I feel your pain, but the accidental clipboard overwrite can be mitigated by using a clipboard manager. Every GNU/Linux DE installs one by default and you can access it via tray app or pressing Meta+v. Turns out MS Windows has one, too, since Windows 10. Here you press the Windows Logo Key + v.
- globular-toast 3y ago
  Rarely does a day go by without some frustration caused by tools trying to be clever. Garbage software like Teams and Discord is usually the culprit. Using this kind of software is less about sending commands and more begging for behaviour and hoping the beg is interpreted in an unsurprising way.
progval 3y ago
With Firefox, go to about:config and toggle layout.css.scrollbar-width-thin.disabled to true. You might want to toggle widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled to false too, so the scrollbar isn't automatically hidden when unusused.

SoftTalker 3y ago

The page-up and page-down keys, as well as the arrow keys, should also work for scrolling, but often don't because of hijacked scrolling events.

gdprrrr 3y ago
Also space, shift-space, home, end, and middle-click-drag

WanderPanda 3y ago

Thats why I love the minimap in VS code, it is basically an enlarged scrollbar!

giancarlostoro 3y ago

I agree. I've also noticed, ctrl + c, ctrl + v fails really often, especially on chat apps, and I realized why: they'll copy your chatbox contents (empty) if you accidentally press ctrl + c, and so whatever you copied is now gone. I was going nuts because it could happen to me on every single OS I would use, copy and paste is like being destroyed by "helpful" application designs. If I'm not highlighting text, don't copy for me! I'm looking at you Teams, Discord and maybe Slack?

Propelloni 3y ago
I feel your pain, but the accidental clipboard overwrite can be mitigated by using a clipboard manager. Every GNU/Linux DE installs one by default and you can access it via tray app or pressing Meta+v. Turns out MS Windows has one, too, since Windows 10. Here you press the Windows Logo Key + v.
globular-toast 3y ago
Rarely does a day go by without some frustration caused by tools trying to be clever. Garbage software like Teams and Discord is usually the culprit. Using this kind of software is less about sending commands and more begging for behaviour and hoping the beg is interpreted in an unsurprising way.

progval 3y ago

With Firefox, go to about:config and toggle layout.css.scrollbar-width-thin.disabled to true. You might want to toggle widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled to false too, so the scrollbar isn't automatically hidden when unusused.