Comment 38 for bug 765819

>Please keep in mind that this is not just a problem of particular programs like Firefox or Chrome. E.g. when using a regular terminal in full screen mode, it is impossible to mark lines for copy/paste if you want to mark them from the leftmost column.

i agree.

>A simple solution might be to move the launcher to the right instead of the left window side, which seems to be less important. Furthermore, a toolbar at the left side is not really ergonomic, since most people are right handers and thus prefer buttons, handles etc. on the right side.

hmm, right side might suffer even more from false positives when manipulating the scrollbar.