Overlay scrollbar hidden underneath bottom panel in Ubuntu Classic mode

[Christopher Neville-Smith]

Binary package hint: evince

One of the changes to Ubuntu in both the Classic and Unity modes is the replacement of the scrollbars in most GNOME applications with scroll icons that only appear when the mouse is hovered over the right/bottom of the window. However, one problem I've noticed with Evince is that when maximised in the GNOME Classic mode, the scroll icon for left/right scrolling appears below the window, which ends up underneath the bottom panel, making left/right scrolling next to impossible. The scroll icon should appear above the bottom of the window like in the Unity mode.

Hope this makes sense. This screenshot might explain the issue (you can just about make out the scroll icon below the window hidden by the panel.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 20 23:37:46 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
ProcCmdline_: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=aa5e3c4b-800d-4cc3-ba56-aaf4d08bde3d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XsessionErrors: (nautilus:2325): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

[Christopher Neville-Smith (chris-neville-smith)]

I've changed this to overlay-scrollbar instead of evince because I've identified which component causes this scrollbar issue. Apparently, one workaround is to uninstall the overlay-scrollbar component completely, but surely there's a better solution here.

[Gaz Davidson (garethdavidson)]

This also applies to vertical scrollbars when you have a panel on the right hand side of the screen. Maybe a quick fix would be to temporarily disable overlay-scrollbar when in gdm

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

fixed in overlay scrollbars, but metacity should provide the _UNITY_NET_WORKAREA_REGION atom

[Miguel J (mjulier)]

Just switched to Ubuntu 11.04, using Ubuntu-Classic and taskbar on bottom side.
I confirm that this bug is very annoying!
Actually, there could be 2 bugfixes:
  1) shift scrollbar towards the window when close to taskbar, as it is when close to screen edge.
  2) display overlay scrollbar as now, but on a layer above the taskbar.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

it's a metacity bug...

[dino99 (9d9)]

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