The scrollbars in Mac OS X Lion are hidden until activated by moving the cursor to the side of the window and swiping your 2 fingers up and down on the trackpad. This is an extremely annoying and useless default feature from Apple once again for the sake of looks or design.
In a few steps, you can bring them back permanently. You will notice they appear to be skinnier than in previous versions of the OS.
In a few steps, you can bring them back permanently. You will notice they appear to be skinnier than in previous versions of the OS.
This will return scroll bar behavior to that which existed in 10.6 and prior, being always visible:
- Launch System Preferences from the Apple menu
- Click on General
- Look for ‘Show scroll bars’ and select the radiobox next to “Always”
Scrollbars are instantly visible with this change. You may want to take this tip one step further and adjust the behavior of clicking within the scroll bar too.
