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I'm running Debian Jessie. 

$ gnome-session --version  
gnome-session 3.14.0  

$ dpkg -s libgtk-3-0 | grep '^Version'  
Version: 3.14.5-1

I can restore the scroll bar arrows by doing:

Applications->System Tools->Tweak Tool
In Appearance, change GTK+ to HighContrast vs. Adwaita (default)

But where do these changes get saved ?

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  • Trying to get the arrows back on my scroll bars. GTK startup/config is confusing... – AAAfarmclub Sep 01 '15 at 22:01
  • I can acually use Applications->System Tools->Tweak Tool. Change GTK+ to HighContrast vs. Adwaita (default). But where does this change get saved ? I looked at file: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk.css but it only contains: /* Adwaita is the default theme of GTK+ 3, this file is not used */ – AAAfarmclub Sep 01 '15 at 22:14
  • That's better. The changes get saved in a binary file (`dconf` user database). I'm not sure why you ask that because, as I said, this is a theme thing (the theme draws the arrows... or not, the `dconf` db only stores the name of the theme, nothing else). So, you either use a theme that uses scrollbar arrows/buttons or try to modify Adwaita (there are several suggestion floating around but none of them works with newer versions of Adwaita). – don_crissti Sep 01 '15 at 23:03

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Quick fix, wfm:

cat <<HERE >~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
.scrollbar {
  -GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper: true;
  -GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper: true;
  }
HERE

I came up with that after reading this more involved solution involving editing the system theme files: https://askubuntu.com/questions/200938/question-about-gtkscrollbar-class-in-custom-themes

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