diff --git a/packages/app-gnome/src/widgets/source-view.ts b/packages/app-gnome/src/widgets/source-view.ts
index 565adcc1..b4eb0389 100644
--- a/packages/app-gnome/src/widgets/source-view.ts
+++ b/packages/app-gnome/src/widgets/source-view.ts
@@ -542,15 +542,10 @@ export class SourceView extends Adw.Bin implements SourceViewWidget {
       ...rest
     } = params;
     super(rest);
-    // Source code is inherently LTR content, so the widget is exempt from
-    // RTL mirroring — like in any code editor, the gutter, scrollbar and
-    // the floating copy button keep their LTR positions. GTK does not
-    // propagate the direction to existing children, so every widget that
-    // resolves its own alignment or margins must be pinned individually.
-    this.set_direction(Gtk.TextDirection.LTR);
-    this._scrolledWindow.set_direction(Gtk.TextDirection.LTR);
-    this._sourceView.set_direction(Gtk.TextDirection.LTR);
-    this._copyButton.set_direction(Gtk.TextDirection.LTR);
+    // Source code is inherently LTR content, so the whole widget is exempt
+    // from RTL mirroring — like in any code editor, the gutter, scrollbar
+    // and the floating copy button keep their LTR positions.
+    this.pinDirectionLtr(this);
     this.setupScrolledWindow();
 
     // Setup action group and actions
@@ -809,6 +804,22 @@ export class SourceView extends Adw.Bin implements SourceViewWidget {
     this._sourceView.highlight_current_line = this._sourceView.editable;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Pin the widget and all its current descendants to LTR.
+   *
+   * gtk_widget_set_direction does not propagate to children, and some of
+   * the widgets that resolve a direction themselves are internal — like the
+   * GtkRange inside each scrollbar, which maps the scroll position: left
+   * unpinned it keeps the RTL default and shows the thumb mirrored to the
+   * LTR code content (at the right end while the view shows the left edge).
+   */
+  private pinDirectionLtr(widget: Gtk.Widget): void {
+    widget.set_direction(Gtk.TextDirection.LTR);
+    for (let child = widget.get_first_child(); child !== null; child = child.get_next_sibling()) {
+      this.pinDirectionLtr(child);
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Update the style of the source view.
    * Used internally to update the style of the source view when the theme changes.