ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars set to false shows no arrows in several cases

I'm running 12.04, and prefer the more conservative style "normal" scrollbars over the overlay scrollbars. I have set them to false in the terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars false

However after doing so, with some apps (e.g. Nautilus, Document Viewer) my scrollbars only view a vertical bar, but no arrows on the top and bottom to scroll up and down. With some programs these are shown though, for instance Gummi and Texmaker.

It would make a big difference (for instance when having to scroll pdf documents containing several hundreds of pages) to have those arrows reinstated. Is there any way to make this work?

Solution 1:

You could try the methods outlined by Webupd8.

My favorite is the uninstallation option:

sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar liboverlay-scrollbar-0.2-0 liboverlay-scrollbar3-0.2-0

Bear in mind that Webupd8 says that this may cause dependency issues with metapackages, although in practice I haven't had this issue with 12.04. If you do have dependency issues, I would advise against removing any metapackages and instead recommend that you use one of the other methods.