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forcedtopicksomething

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How to turn off tooltips for Kate or any Qt-powered application?

I use Xfce (Debian 13) but I still use Kate (a KDE program) because it's somehow the only semi-decent text editor/IDE for Linux (I've tried them all).

But Kate shows insanely annoying tooltips when you hover the items in the Documents pane. It has no setting to turn this off in its own settings. And that "qt6c" program has no setting to turn off all tooltips in any Qt-powered program. It seems hardcoded... but I really hope it's not.

I've disabled all tooltips in GTK-powered applications, but that doesn't affect Kate. Is there any way you can think of to disable them either for Kate or at least "anything using Qt"?

I've unsuccessfully tried adding "[Style]\ntooltip-opacity=0.0" (yes, that's an actual linebreak) in ~/.config/qt6ct/qt6ct.conf and "export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt6ct" in ~/.profile. Doesn't help.

I feel constantly stressed when using Kate because of this "feature", always having to keep moving the cursor so it doesn't accidentally "rest" for a moment in the Documents pane and that stupid tooltip pops up and steals focus from my eyes which are busy reading code/text in the main view.

Please let there be some sane way to turn this off. I can't modify and rebuild Kate itself.

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: How to turn off tooltips for Kate or any Qt-powered application?

This might of interest.

If you install kvantum, run the kvantum manager and in "Configure Active Theme" > Sizes and Delays, set the tooltip delay to 9999ms, it will delay them for 10 seconds, which might be good enough.

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forcedtopicksomething

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Re: How to turn off tooltips for Kate or any Qt-powered application?

Well, I installed "Kvantum" and did what you said, and it works after I switched the "theme" to "kvantum" in qt6c (there is also a menu option in Kate to do the same). However, two problems:

1. The "kvantum" theme is completely different from "Breeze" which I had (standard, I assume), but if I switch to "Breeze", there is no way to "edit" that theme from the Kvantum thing. The list of themes to modify simply don't include "Breeze", and it's very confusing in its structure. The Kvantum tool always says "Active theme: Kvantum (modified)" in the bottom, even if I've gone into qt6c and set the theme to "Breeze". It doesn't let me change which theme to modify. The "Application Themes" section is for something else and all the themes listed begin with "Kv".

2. The 10-second delay is certainly *better*, but still very stressful since it eventually happens, by the time I've started really focusing... I can't believe that even when there is a way to edit this, they still refuse to put in a way to DISABLE the damn thing or even pick a really high number such as "9999999999". I guess because it's hardcoded into Qt or something, which makes me hate that toolkit even more...

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: How to turn off tooltips for Kate or any Qt-powered application?

Here is an attempt to create a Kvantum Breeze theme: https://github.com/Niru2169/KvKonqi.

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