[Users] Adjusting the slider between "total" column and "attachments"

Gil Weber gilweber at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 20:57:18 CET 2021


Scrollbar. How could I forget that? Old age I guess.  :o)

Thanks, Paul. Appreciate the reply.

The setting is "0" (default) so I'm not going to change anything there.
I will look into your comment about GTK.
Gil


On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:10:47 -0000
Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:24:50 -0500
> Gil Weber <gilweber at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> > The slider (sorry, don't know the right name but it's the up and
> > down control to move throughout the various mailbox folders)   
> 
> It's called the scrollbar.
> 
> > Is there a way to adjust either the width of the slider control or,
> > preferrably, a way to have it always display so that I'm not hunting
> > for the exact spot to grab it?  
> 
> This disappearing/reappearing is not controlled by Claws Mail but by
> your GTK theme (or perhaps your desktop environment). This is not the
> case here.
> 
> There is a hidden preference in Claws Mail that has some control over
> the scrollbar, see the manual entry
> (https://claws-mail.org/manual/claws-mail-manual.html):
> 
> folderview_vscrollbar_policy
>     Specify the policy of vertical scrollbar of Folder List: '0' is
> always shown, '1' is automatic and '2' is always hidden. Default
> value is '0'.
> 
> But the 'automatic' in this option doesn't have any relation to the
> behaviour that you describe, instead, when set to 1, the scrollbar
> shows only if there is more content than can fit vertically in the
> visible area.
> 
> with regards
> 
> Paul
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