Ubuntu natty introduced new "invisible" scrollbars for GTK programs such as gEdit or Nautilus.

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If you do not like them:
sudo apt-get purge liboverlay-scrollbar-*

In order to have a tool recognize the changes you have to quit all its instances. Or just log out and back in.