Scrolling icons doesn't work? Change the window size!

[Bill_MI]

This affects 16.10 applications like Control Center and Caja in Icon or Compact view. It seems to be a general problem with viewing icons with a scroll bar present so not easily classified.

1) Open Control Center.
2) Attempt to scroll to the bottom - it won't go there!

If this doesn't create the bug it may be theme dependent.

I find Control Center happens to open at a bad width. Changing the width can make the problem come and go in a very particular way. Bad widths are just before switching to a larger number of columns.

For example, Control Center opens with 2 columns but is at a width just short of 3 columns - a bad place to be. Increase width to 3 columns and the problem goes away. I didn't measure the bad width but it's a band of 10 pixels or so.

Caja in Icon view behaves much like Control Center but Caja in Compact view has a sensitivity to rows and vertical size. Caja also looses the ability to rename files while scrolling is broken.

This bug has been discussed and first reported by Mountain_Man:
https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/mate-control-center-cant-scroll-all-the-way-down-in-16-10/9730
https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/upgraded-from-16-04-to-16-10-file-manager-caja-cannot-scroll-to-bottom-cannot-rename-no-icon-highlight/9805

[Steffen Günther (stguenth)]

Same here (ubuntu-mate 16.10):
Caja not scrolling to the bottom with icon-view.

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

This is fixed in mate-control-center 1.18 that will feature in Ubuntu MATE 17.04 and is available for testing in the daily iso images.

[David Rennie-Waldock (david-rennie-waldock)]

mate-control-center appears fixed, Caja is not.
Running 17.04 with Caja 1.18.1-0ubuntu1,

[David Rennie-Waldock (david-rennie-waldock)]

Fixed in Caja 1.18.2... released 20 days ago.
Can we get a new release to fix this 6+ month old bug?

[Nathan Rennie-Waldock (nathan-renniewaldock)]

I've made a PPA with fixed caja if anyone is interested: https://launchpad.net/~nathan-renniewaldock/+archive/ubuntu/caja-bug1637723

[Douglas Silva (o-alquimista)]

Affecting Ubuntu MATE 17.04. Resizing or maximizing window is a workaround.

[MLapin (mlapin-deactivatedaccount)]

There seems to be a regression since this is affecting me on 18.04. It's not theme dependent, I tried Ambiant-Mate, Arc, Numix, Menta.

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

Fixed in Ubuntu MATE 20.04