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aga

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Registered: 2011-12-30

Posts: 17

can we suppress comment text string displayed onhover (panel behavior)

? Is there a way to toggle OFF this behavior, so that mousover an item on the panel doesn't cause comment text (or full webpage title, if the button is associated with a browser window)

On a related note, I wish the menu could be setup to perform similar to "application finder" ~~ displaying (onhover) the "comment" string present in an item's .desktop file and, (hopefully, fingers crossed) also display the full path to the menu item. If there's a way to accomplish this, I haven't been able to figure it out.

eric_the_idiot

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Registered: 2011-12-23

Posts: 58

Re: can we suppress comment text string displayed onhover (panel behavior)

You can change your tooltip delay or disable it completely by editing your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file. Adding/editing
gtk-tooltip-timeout = 2500
will make the popups have an initial delay of 2500ms.
gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
will disable them completely. Note however this will break selection of icons in xfdesktop, there's a proposed patch to fix it: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8192
After modifying the gtkrc file you'll need to restart the app, i.e. xfdesktop --quit; xfdesktop & or just logout and log back in.
Reference: http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/unstable … ip-timeout

aga

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Registered: 2011-12-30

Posts: 17

Re: can we suppress comment text string displayed onhover (panel behavior)

Thanks for the info!