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If you don’t like the big resize grip on emacs, firefox and many other applications you can disable them in Ubuntu 11.04.

See
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/disable-the-resize-grip-in-ubuntu-11-04/

You simply need to add

style "default-style"
{
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-height = 0
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-width = 0
}

class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"

to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.

I updated my Ubuntu to 11.04 yesterday and really didn’t like the new scroll bars.

After a little searching I found

• http://www.worthytips.com/14681/easily-disable-overlay-scrollbars.html
• http://www.matbra.com/en/2011/04/28/remover-ou-desabilitar-a-barra-de-rolagem-overlay-ubuntu-11-04/
• and many more.

Simply add the string “export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0” into the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars file.

E.g perform the following as root

echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars