How do I make Terminal.app's scrollbars disappear in Lion?

Question

Once I upgraded to Lion, I found out that the vertical scrollbar is always plastered to the right side of the application window.

Because I run GNU Screen within Terminal.app, the right side of the screen session gets hidden partially underneath said scrollbar. Likewise for emacs sessions.

Is there a way to disable scrollbars in Terminal.app in Lion?

Answer 1

I assume you're not using a trackpad, and/or your Show scroll bars preference in System Preferences → General is set to either Automatically based on input device or Always (otherwise, you shouldn't be seeing persistent scrollbars).

Try changing this setting for Terminal only:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal AppleShowScrollbars WhenScrolling

Answer 2

System Preferences > General > Show scroll bars > When scrolling

Answer 3

Try LionScrollbars. It's the only thing that worked for me (besides setting the entire system to "When scrolling"). Works like a charm under 10.8.2.