[Users] Filtering windows problem (cannot close)

[Jeremy Schneider]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 12:49:40 +0100 Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:

> It could be that you have "overlay-scrollbar-gtk2" (or similarly
> named) installed. This, it appears, tries to be smart but actually
> messes things up badly. It has been the cause of some modal window
> misbehaviour in Claws. If you've got it installed, remove it and see
> if the problem goes away.

This was exactly it - solved my problem.  Thanks!  (Apologies for the
delayed response, it was only just now that I finally had a chance to
check!)  FYI, uninstalling is unnecessary - simply disabling overlay
scrollbars is sufficient.

# gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars
false

Doesn't even require logging out of your X session; you just need to
exit and restart claws and the change takes effect right away.  Anyone
know if there's already a bug report with the overlay-scrollbar
package?  Admittedly I like having the bit of extra screen real estate
on my netbook and this was the first time I'd encountered a problem.
Oh well, glad claws is working correctly again!

-J

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