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Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows?

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Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2014-02-24, Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
>> ErikRS:
>>> I've been forced to switch to Lion on my newly bought MacPro1.1 Xeon
>>> DualCore 4x3,0ghz, due to the use of specific software that requires
>>> Lion... - But it /does/ irritate me like ... that it isn't possible to
>>> have double-arrows in the scrollbars...
>>>
>>> Is it in any way possible to get the arrows back again in Lion v. 10.7.5...?
>>
>> Your knee-jerk reaction against the loss of the double arrows is
>> understandable. We all find changes in new OS versions that we don't
>> like. If you are typical user and not a sorehead, you will become
>> accustomed to the new scheme in a short time and you will forget that
>> double arrows ever existed. They're a poor substitute for a scrolling
>> mouse or trackpad, anyway.
>
> Indeed. The changes bothered me at first. While I did get accustomed to
> the changes, they still somewhat irked me until I finally bit the bullet
> and got myself a Magic Trackpad and learned to use gestures for
> clicking, dragging, and scrolling. Ever since then haven't missed
> persistent visible scroll bars or the little arrows at the top and
> bottom.

You can have the scrollbars themselves back - also permanently, but no 
arrows any way... I can't use a trackpad because of various problems 
with my hands such as problems with my wrist and partially missing parts 
of two fingers on my right hand.

Cheers, Erik Richard

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Lion and scrollbar arrows? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-02-24 03:03 +0100
  Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-02-23 21:42 -0500
    Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-24 02:46 +0000
      Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-02-24 14:09 +0100
        Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-24 16:13 +0000
          Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-02-24 16:45 +0000
            Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-02-24 18:42 +0000
              Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-02-24 17:09 -0600
                Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-02-24 23:13 +0000
              Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-02-28 04:05 +0000
                Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-28 04:38 +0000
                Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-02-27 23:56 -0800
                Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-02-28 19:12 +0100
  Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-02-24 16:33 +1300
    Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-02-24 04:08 +0000
      Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-02-24 14:59 +0100
      Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-25 09:30 +0000
        Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-02-25 14:54 +0100
    Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-02-24 14:56 +0100
      Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-02-24 17:01 -0500
        Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-02-25 12:21 +1300
          Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-02-25 08:47 +0000
            Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-02-25 17:06 -0500
              Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-26 23:24 +0000
      Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-24 22:29 +0000
        Re: Lion and scrollbar arrows? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-02-24 23:39 +0100

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