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golinux

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Registered: 2011-11-19

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Disable tooltips for Desktop icons only

Have just installed Devuan alpha2 with xfce 4.10.  I have been looking on and off all day for how to turn off the tooltips for the Desktop icons only.  I found this code for .gtlrc-2.0 but it disables tooltips everywhere which I don't want to do:

gtk-enable-tooltips = 0

This option which I have used before seems to have disappeared:

Go to Settings > Desktop
Click on Icons tab
Under Appearance, look for Show icon tooltips and deselect/leave uncheck

Any suggestions of how to achieve the above?  I didn't have those huge Desktop popup balloons on wheezy with xfce.  They are extremely annoying.

Thanks,

golinux

Last edited by golinux (2015-11-09 02:30:30)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Disable tooltips for Desktop icons only

Can you post back a screenshot of the xfdesktop settings window where the "Show tooltips" option is missing?

Also, give the following a try:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /desktop-icons/show-tooltips -s false

Edit: nvm. It looks like this configuration option was not available in 4.10. here is another thread that talks about it.

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golinux

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Registered: 2011-11-19

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Re: Disable tooltips for Desktop icons only

Can you post back a screenshot of the xfdesktop settings window where the "Show tooltips" option is missing?

Also, give the following a try:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /desktop-icons/show-tooltips -s false

Thanks for the suggestion.  Here you go:

$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /desktop-icons/show-tooltips -s false
Property "/desktop-icons/show-tooltips" does not exist on channel "xfce4-desktop". If a new property should be created, use the --create option.

That option is now missing from settings.  Is there a way to create it?

This is so gross!

Hope this can be fixed!

golinux

Last edited by golinux (2015-11-09 03:54:12)

golinux

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Re: Disable tooltips for Desktop icons only

Dang.  All that work for nothing!  I actually did search before posting but didn't see that other thread.

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Re: Disable tooltips for Desktop icons only

Can you add a suitable delay before the action occurs? Even if it must be system-wide, it might help if you're only gripe is that it happens on the desktop "before you have a chance to move your mouse to a blank space."

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golinux

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Registered: 2011-11-19

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Re: Disable tooltips for Desktop icons only

Can you add a suitable delay before the action occurs? Even if it must be system-wide, it might help if you're only gripe is that it happens on the desktop "before you have a chance to move your mouse to a blank space."

Regards,
MDM

Interesting suggestion. I'll need to poke around the documentation a bit.  I'll start here:

http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/advanced

I've already improved things.by changing the 48 to 0 in this configuration which totally eliminates the image component of the tooltip:

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=29584#p29584

Next I'm going to try to reduce the font size and box dimension to make the foot print even smaller.  Hope to get that sorted today.

It's so annoying when good features are removed and new useless features are added to one's favorite apps.  Always takes some time to get things optimal again . . . think Firefox/Iceweasel . . .

ozjd

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Re: Disable tooltips for Desktop icons only

golinux, those options are back in 4.12.

golinux

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Registered: 2011-11-19

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Re: Disable tooltips for Desktop icons only

golinux, those options are back in 4.12.

Excellent!  Thank you!