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On GNU/Linux run this command, it will fix it for all the GTK based desktops, such as XFCE, Gnome and Mate:

               gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface overlay-scrolling false

Under Mac you might have a similar Cocoa setting or whatever is called (nsproperties?) with "defaults write".

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I'm on Windows and Mac. Not because I love them, but because that is where my customers are. Also I try to keep my computers fairly vanilla, so that they don't look too different to the user's computer when I do videos or screenshots of my software.

Windows: Settings -> Accessibility -> Always show scrollbars.

Which is ignored by most programs.

Report as bug. A surprising number of (commercial or open source) projects care about accessibility settings

Of course, a smaller but no less surprising number of projects don't. The complexity of such a report is so low, though, that one might as well try for software that you actually use

On Mac, the setting is also simply exposed in the normal “System Settings” app. “Appearance” → “Show scroll bars” → “Always”.

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