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authorWolfgang Müller2021-07-12 20:16:01 +0200
committerWolfgang Müller2021-07-12 20:16:01 +0200
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Mention overlay scrolling in the manual
GTK's decision to make overlay scrolling the default seems to be quite controversial. It also brings with it added complexity in both behaviour and configuration and should therefore be mentioned in the manual.
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-.Dd June 25, 2021
+.Dd July 12, 2021
.Dt WELTSCHMERZ 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -172,6 +172,18 @@ When set to
no scrollbar is drawn.
The default is
.Sy true .
+.Pp
+Note that
+.Nm
+uses overlay scrolling if available.
+This means that the scrollbar is drawn on top of the terminal and fades
+out automatically if unused.
+If you wish to turn this behaviour off, set the
+.Ev GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING
+environment variable to
+.Sy 0
+or modify the GTK setting
+.Sy gtk-overlay-scrolling .
.El
.Pp
The