Windows colors

CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄ƷDer Millionendorf- Icrontian
edited January 2012 in Science & Tech
I want to change the color of my scroll bar shuttle. I don't know how to do that anymore. IT WAS ONCE SO EASY!

Anyway, there's not enough contrast between the bar and the shuttle to tell where it is at a glance, especially when a long page turns the shuttle tiny. If I could just make it black or purple or whatever, that would be sweet, but that doesn't seem to be an option anymore.

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  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    What browser??? What version???

    In Firefox, shuttle is controlled by theme chosen defining the shuttle color, pattern, or picture and scroll bar area coloring. I use Walnut theme in Firefox 9.0.1 for the simple fact that the shuttle is medium woody pattern, and the scroll bar area is very light (looks white to me).

    IE grabs from Windows theme as to shuttle and scroll bar. So, change Windows theme to a higher contrast theme, and you get a darker shuttle, light scroll bar.

    HTH.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited January 2012
    I'm in Chrome. I was assuming it was the windows default bar, but now that you mention it, it seems to be a design unique to Chrome. I just do so much in Chome that I didn't realize. :o

    So, I guess my real question then is: Is there a way to change the color of the Chrome scroll shuttle?
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2012
    I did some Googling, but do not use Chrome these days so this may have changed from what I found, but here is Google's take on the "right stuff" way:

    http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/elements-styles.html

    You can also change Chrome's theme to get changes to elements in Chrome as a set:

    http://browsers.about.com/od/googlechrome/ss/google-chrome-themes.htm offers a set of steps, which I hope might still work for you and others.

    HTH.

    John.

  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    Thanks John.

    I've tried changing my theme. Unfortunately, the theme does not effect the bar or shuttle.

    That other page looks like it's for developers or something? If what I need is on that page, I don't know what I'm looking at.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    Betsy found me a solution. I didn't think to look in chrome's extensions, but if you search there for 'scrollbar' there are a whole mess of scrollbar mods. Some don't work, and some are just silly (Nyan cat scrollbar!), but I found I nice clean one that works a lot better for me. :)
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    Betsy found me a solution. I didn't think to look in chrome's extensions, but if you search there for 'scrollbar' there are a whole mess of scrollbar mods. Some don't work, and some are just silly (Nyan cat scrollbar!), but I found I nice clean one that works a lot better for me. :)
    Cool. Happy you found a fix. :)

  • AnnesAnnes Tripped Up by Libidos and Hubris Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    CB, could you link the one you chose? I have the same issue and never even thought about fixing it until this thread. Thanks!
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited January 2012
    Sure.

    I'm using this one, and Betsy switched to this one.

    Hopefully those addresses aren't session specific.
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