Unity Tweak Tool Issue

If you uninstall the overlay scrollbars as I recommended in an earlier post, you will not be able to start-up the Unity Tweak Tool. It will tell you that a schema is missing, saying that you need com.canonical.desktop.interface. You will wonder what the heck that is. Well it is part of the overlay scrollbars. You have to reinstall them.

Open a Terminal and copy and paste the following, then press enter:

sudo apt-get install overlay-scrollbar

Now the Unity Tweak Tool will launch. But now you’re back to those horrible scrollbars. You can actually fix this in the Unity Tweak Tool itself. On the very bottom of the page you will see Scrolling, click into that. Then just click Legacy. That’s all there is to it.

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Jay Forrest is a long‑time Linux enthusiast who switched to Ubuntu in 2008 after a Windows XP virus convinced him to embrace open‑source software. A former host of the Linux User Podcast, Jay has worked in technical support for AOL, EarthLink, and Route 66 Casino, built his first 486 in the 90s, and has provided web design for businesses and nonprofits. He works with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and basic PHP, and enjoys exploring open‑source software. As a former Fedora Ambassador, Jay is dedicated to sharing why Linux—secure, stable, and open—remains his platform of choice.