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  1. Bug #769277
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 769277

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Florian W. (florian-will) wrote : Re: Eclipse shows overlay scrollbar but when i hover there is no scroll handles

Thanks mbelos, didn't know about that environment variable! And I was actually going to ask (before I read your comment) wheter an environment variable to disable overlay scrollbars exists.

Interestingly enough, /usr/bin/eclipse is a start script that already contains a workaround for a different bug that requires setting an environment variable. ("# work around for e#290395 / LP: #458703").

I simply added:

# work around for LP #769277
export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0
# end work around

below the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true export. Fixed the problem for me.

Someone might want to file a bug against Eclipse in Ubuntu to get something like this included.

Still, I hope that there will be an Eclipse version w/ overlay scrollbars. Is that going to happen?