[Solved] Disable Tooltips on XFCE desktop

benelux.j · 2013-01-02 20:54:00

Hi all,
On XFCE 4.10 is possible disabling Tooltip on xfdesktop?

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Cheers,

ozjd · 2013-01-03 03:01:37

Add this line to ~/.gtkrc-2.0

gtk-enable-tooltips = 0

benelux.j · 2013-01-03 17:08:54

Yesssssssss, work fine!

Thank

fest3er · 2013-04-14 21:04:33

ozjd wrote:

Add this line to ~/.gtkrc-2.0
gtk-enable-tooltips = 0

This works in 4.8 (Debian Wheezy), but has weird side effects.

In phpBB and vBulletin, I can no longer drag-select text with the mouse in Chromium unless the mouse is moving quickly before I hold down the left button. Scrollbars no longer drag in Chromium. I can't drag-select desktop icons unless the mouse is moving quickly before I hold the left button down.

Oh, well. As annoying as the tool tips are, I'll have to re-enable them. These new problems affect usability.

ozjd · 2013-04-14 22:27:00

fest3er wrote:

ozjd wrote:
Add this line to ~/.gtkrc-2.0
gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
This works in 4.8 (Debian Wheezy), but has weird side effects.
In phpBB and vBulletin, I can no longer drag-select text with the mouse in Chromium unless the mouse is moving quickly before I hold down the left button. Scrollbars no longer drag in Chromium. I can't drag-select desktop icons unless the mouse is moving quickly before I hold the left button down.
Oh, well. As annoying as the tool tips are, I'll have to re-enable them. These new problems affect usability.

Sounds like a bug in Chromium, file a bug report.

Sideburns · 2013-04-17 02:42:47

I'm running Xfce4.10 on Fedora 17. there is not such directory as ~/.gtkrc-2.0. In fact, there's no such file as ~/gt* on my machine.

OOPS! That's a file, not a directory. Never mind...

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Not only didn't it work, it messed up some of my other settings. I've commented it out, and will log out and back in again to see if I can, at least, get back to where I started.

Last edited by Sideburns (2013-04-17 02:53:21)

Sideburns · 2013-04-20 20:09:38

I just tried this on my laptop; same result. Not only didn't it work as advertised, it changed the background on my icon labels, just as it did on my desktop.

ozjd · 2013-04-21 01:04:54

I tested again on my Fedora 17 system running Xfce 4.10 and it worked for me. I usually have the icon background set to transparent but changed it while testing.

I don't understand why it works for some people and not for others. I'm guessing there is some difference in set up that isn't obvious that causes this but don't know what it is. I'm guessing you didn't have a .gtkrc2.0 file before?

Sideburns · 2013-04-21 01:38:24

As a matter of fact, I did, on both machines. I created it to get a transparent background for icon labels. (This goes away on either machine when I try to nuke tooltips.) Is there a specific place in the file it belongs? It occurs to me that I've been putting it inside the icon view section. I'll try moving it up above that part and see what happens.

ozjd · 2013-04-21 01:49:54

Sideburns wrote:

As a matter of fact, I did, on both machines. I created it to get a transparent background for icon labels. (This goes away on either machine when I try to nuke tooltips.) Is there a specific place in the file it belongs? It occurs to me that I've been putting it inside the icon view section. I'll try moving it up above that part and see what happens.

I've got it at the end of the file, not in any section.

Sideburns · 2013-04-21 01:53:45

OK, I put it at the top, just before the icon section and it worked.

Sideburns · 2013-04-21 21:11:37

I'm not sure if this is a side-effect, or what. Now, the tooltips for the various applets on my panel (such as the weather) don't show up, and activating them via Desktop Settings doesn't help. It's a shame that you can't get rid of the huge, annoying, redundant "tooltips" for desktop icons without getting rid of the useful ones as well.

ozjd · 2013-04-21 22:37:34

I suspect it is a single setting, all or none. That is the reason I don't disable them. I find the tooltips on external drives icons useful.

Sideburns · 2013-04-21 22:45:13

The only ones I've ever found useful were the ones that let me see all of the weather data or just what my CPU usage is ATM. The ones for the desktop icons I've always considered redundant, especially when you consider that they show the last time the launcher was modified, not the file it points to.

muellner · 2013-04-25 15:20:32

While not disabling the toooltips, the following lines in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 brought the humongous tooltips down to a pleasant size:

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
    XfdesktopIconView::tooltip-size = 48
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

This doesn't seem to have the negative side effects of disabling the GTK tooltips in general.

Source: the README in the current xfdesktop source distribution (4.10.2).

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[Solved] Disable Tooltips on XFCE desktop

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