Comments on: Mac tip: Miss the scroll bar arrows? Try the arrow keys instead (reader mail)

By: Poesmom

Poesmom — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:40:00 +0000

Using the keyboard arrows helps. However, I just found that they do not work in MacMail. Strange. Still, like is said, it’s better than nothing.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:51:00 +0000

A lot of replies here so forgive me if this is a duplication, but many folks are not aware that a tap on the space bar will advance your scrollable document by one screen’s worth of information. So if you’re on a website and you just want to scroll down a page, just tap! : ) Those with Apple’s trackpad (possibly the most underrated improvement to their laptops in the last decade) can slide two fingers up, down, left and right on the pad to move the document around. The Apple trackpad is available as a standalone accessory as well to those of you with iMac’s, Mac Mini’s and I dare say even PCs… I know I can use it just fine with my Mac booted into Windows, so I assume that means there are drivers for it. Just be aware that the trackpad requires Leopard or better, I’m pretty sure.

Hopefully that’s helpful to some out there!

Terry
Washington, DC

By: Frannie Stevens-Meshorer

Frannie Stevens-Meshorer — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:02:00 +0000

THANKS so much for the Apple link .. i BEGGED for a larger scroll bar! We’ll see if Apple, like SANTA, “delivers” if you’re a good girl or boy!

By: TatuSaloranta

TatuSaloranta — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:18:00 +0000

Alas, scroll keys will not help with one important use case, that of scrolling history of Terminal window (since arrow keys just change command history). So one has to try to use scrollbar (if enabled), or page up/down.

By: Ross Youngblood

Ross Youngblood — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:09:00 +0000

I’m trying to see if I can run a *different* X11 window manager on the desktop to get my scroll bar arrows back. It’s a lot of work, but Google “OSX X11 Window Manager” and there are some bread crumbs to follow. I’ve gotten the install completed, probably clobbered my initial .xinitrc file, but will be poking at this with a stick for a few days off and on to see if I can get things to improve. If not.. I may be converting to Linux again.

By: Ross Youngblood

Ross Youngblood — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:08:00 +0000

I’m looking into running a different X11 window manager to see if I can get scroll arrows back. It’s a bit of work.

By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:52:00 +0000

In reply to Cameron James. Thanks for the note, Cameron; unfortunately, that only makes the scroll bars bigger, it doesn't bring back the scroll-bar arrow buttons.

By: Cameron James

Cameron James — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:30:00 +0000

This is a permanent fix:

Launch System Preferences.

Select the General preference pane.

The middle section of the General preference pane controls when scroll bars appear and a few additional scroll bar options.

To return the scroll bars, select “Always” from the Show Scroll Bars options.