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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsThis is the standard behaviour also for any vertical Windows (as in Windows OS) scrollbar. And is terribly annoying - who the elephant wants auto hiding scrollbars ???
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Paddington Bear wrote:
Why don't you just disable the scrollbar auto-hide? Or am I missing something?
Googling exactly that, it doesn't seem possible. The most recent post I found talks about making it taller and a different color, but being able to always show it is one of those features people want but nobody has implemented. Apparently. My google-fu could be off.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence Operatorsvscode settings - Make horizontal scrollbar more visible in Visual Studio code - Stack Overflow[^] vscode settings - How to make scrollbars wider in Visual Studio Code? - Stack Overflow[^] You'll need to manually open
%APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json, since the settings editor doesn't know about these properties.{
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"editor.scrollbar.horizontal": "visible",
"editor.scrollbar.horizontalScrollbarSize": 20
}That at least makes it taller and always visible.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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This is the standard behaviour also for any vertical Windows (as in Windows OS) scrollbar. And is terribly annoying - who the elephant wants auto hiding scrollbars ???
Rage wrote:
This is the standard behaviour also for any vertical Windows (as in Windows OS) scrollbar. And is terribly annoying - who the elephant wants auto hiding scrollbars ???
The same people who thought turning Windows into a tablet OS was a good idea. They still haven't turned the clock back far enough.
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vscode settings - Make horizontal scrollbar more visible in Visual Studio code - Stack Overflow[^] vscode settings - How to make scrollbars wider in Visual Studio Code? - Stack Overflow[^] You'll need to manually open
%APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json, since the settings editor doesn't know about these properties.{
...
"editor.scrollbar.horizontal": "visible",
"editor.scrollbar.horizontalScrollbarSize": 20
}That at least makes it taller and always visible.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Cool. A crappy workaround (now I have a scrollbar 20 pixels high, yes I could make it shorter) for stupid UX design. But not wanting to shoot the messenger, thank you! :-D
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsIt's as frustrating as spending 20 minutes trying to find your glasses when they're on top of your head. Dammit now I forgot what I was going to do.
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It's as frustrating as spending 20 minutes trying to find your glasses when they're on top of your head. Dammit now I forgot what I was going to do.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
It's as frustrating as spending 20 minutes trying to find your glasses when they're on top of your head. Dammit now I forgot what I was going to do.
WE have the advanced technology required to ameliorate that problem. It's called "a piece of string".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mike Hankey wrote:
It's as frustrating as spending 20 minutes trying to find your glasses when they're on top of your head. Dammit now I forgot what I was going to do.
WE have the advanced technology required to ameliorate that problem. It's called "a piece of string".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I'll have to research the string thing. :)
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsI was so going to rant about this a few months ago when I started using VSC (Visual Studio Code). You explain the problem exactly. It takes a moment for it to appear and in that moment you click the edge of the window!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad: It's so annoying!!!
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Paddington Bear wrote:
Why don't you just disable the scrollbar auto-hide? Or am I missing something?
Googling exactly that, it doesn't seem possible. The most recent post I found talks about making it taller and a different color, but being able to always show it is one of those features people want but nobody has implemented. Apparently. My google-fu could be off.
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsHow to keep scrollbars always visible on Windows 10 April 2018 Update[^] This is one of the first things I do on a new Win 10 machine/installation. I've not yet found a way to stop those auto reboots after updates...
It goes without saying
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They're trying to train you to break lines at a reasonable location so that you don't need horizontal scroll bars.
Or just resize your window across three monitors: when your editor is 5000 pixels wide, you won't need a scroll bar. ;P
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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But .. why do you need to see the scroll bar? Simply hold Shift and use the scroll wheel to scroll horizontally
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vscode settings - Make horizontal scrollbar more visible in Visual Studio code - Stack Overflow[^] vscode settings - How to make scrollbars wider in Visual Studio Code? - Stack Overflow[^] You'll need to manually open
%APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json, since the settings editor doesn't know about these properties.{
...
"editor.scrollbar.horizontal": "visible",
"editor.scrollbar.horizontalScrollbarSize": 20
}That at least makes it taller and always visible.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Yay, editing obscure json config files to get it to do (almost) exactly what you want - Windows is slowly, but surely, turning into Linux!
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Or just resize your window across three monitors: when your editor is 5000 pixels wide, you won't need a scroll bar. ;P
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Yay, editing obscure json config files to get it to do (almost) exactly what you want - Windows is slowly, but surely, turning into Linux!
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide". So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable. I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.
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