Bug 449908 - No scrollbar shown when virtual desktop list is so long that it's scrollable
Summary: No scrollbar shown when virtual desktop list is so long that it's scrollable
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: effects-overview (show other bugs)
Version: 5.24.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
URL:
Keywords: usability
: 492373 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2022-02-10 03:02 UTC by tgnff242
Modified: 2024-08-30 04:13 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description tgnff242 2022-02-10 03:02:15 UTC 
If you have a lot of virtual desktops, ie. more than 15 on a 1920x1080 monitor, the strip of virtual desktops of the overview effect doesn't show any desktop beyond the 15th. It *is* possible to see the other desktops by left/right-clicking on the strip and dragging it to the left, but it seems uninintuitive to me. I would have expected to be able to move the strip by scrolling over it with the mousewheel and, perhaps, even have a scrollbar.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-02-11 17:58:16 UTC 
It is scrollable, but you're right that it doesn't visually show a scrollbar. We should fix that.
Comment 2 tgnff242 2022-02-11 19:13:37 UTC 
At least on 5.24.0, it's not scrollable; likely a patch that didn't land at this release.
Comment 3 Niklas Stephanblome 2022-10-29 11:53:51 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> It is scrollable, but you're right that it doesn't visually show a
> scrollbar. We should fix that.

It is not scrollable with a standard mouse that doesn't include a horizontal scroll wheel, at least not in Plasma 5.26.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2022-10-31 18:03:12 UTC 
You can scroll horizontally using a one-axis wheel mouse by scrolling up and down while holding down the Alt key (or maybe it's shift, I can never remember).
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2024-08-30 04:13:20 UTC 
*** Bug 492373 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***