It would be nice and consistant if we could enable/disable the scrollbar with commandline options as we can do that for borders etc.
The scrollbar visibility (and position) is a global setting, not a per-window setting. Global settings cannot be altered by a command line switch.
Ok, but why do we have a special behaviour for the scrollbar ? I'd suggest to make the position a global setting, and the visibilty a per-window setting. This way we have the commandline-switches and determine in Preferences/Appearence how new windows came up. And a checkbox for the scrollbar in the view-menu, of course.
Well, it was done as a global preference because that's not something the majority of users will want to set per window. Either you want a scrollbar or you don't want a scrollbar.
I'm running some ncurses application like cmus in a terminal without any borders, menus etc for which I don't need a scrollbar. If I need a terminal for gerneral work it's quite nice to have the scrollbar, though. Sure, it's not that important, but on the other hand it's the only feature I'm missing, and little bit a question of beeing perfect ;-)
Ok, I'll look into this later.
Great, many thanks :-)
(In reply to comment #5) > Ok, I'll look into this later. > Have you got a chance to look into it already? ;)
*** Bug 7599 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Implemented by https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/commit/?id=c4a0deb4b65ce8a38f1b986b0576186c9df23092