xfce4 tooltip is annoying

sureshsaragadam · 2021-10-21 14:13:41

Hi all

I have disabled this tooltip option in the panel and desktop settings, but still not working,
Is there any option sysetm-wide option to disable tooltip.

Regards

Suresh

ToZ · 2021-10-21 16:08:19

sureshsaragadam wrote:

I have disabled this tooltip option in the panel

How did you disable panel tooltips? There is no gui option to do it.

and desktop settings.

This will only disable tooltips for the desktop icons. If you are still seeing desktop icon tooltips after turning off this setting, can you report back the results of:

ps -ef | grep -i desktop

Is there any option sysetm-wide option to disable tooltip.

To hide all GTK3 tooltips in all GTK3 apps, add the following content:

tooltip { opacity: 0 }

...to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css (create the file if it doesn't exist), and re-login.

sureshsaragadam · 2021-10-21 19:44:39

making tooltip opacity zero worked fine by creating a file gtk.css and making an entry as said.
tooltip { opacity: 0}

How did you disable panel tooltips? There is no gui option to do it.

In fact i got confused with whisker menu settings from panel preferences ,

Right Click on Panel / Panel Preferences / Item / select Whisker Menu / Settings

Thank you above tooltip opacity worked fine, I assume there should be an option available from GUI

And even later i noticed and disabled tooltip option from firefox about:config browser.chrome.toolbar_tips , Initially i thought its an xfce4 settings, later i noticed i should disable the same tooltip settings in firefox too.

Thank for the reply.

Best Regards

rsarson · 2021-10-29 10:29:18

Tooltips really are annoying!

To hide all GTK3 tooltips in all GTK3 apps, add the following content:
tooltip { opacity: 0 }
...to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css (create the file if it doesn't exist), and re-login.

This seems to only work when display compositing is enabled in the Settings/Windows Manager Tweaks/Compositor tab.

If there is a solution without compositing enabled, it would be appreciated.

ToZ · 2021-10-29 11:22:39

Unfortunately, GTK3 no longer supports optional tooltips so the only real workaround is to make them transparent - but transparency requires a compositor.

There is one other potential workaround. If your background is one colour (not an image) you can shrink the text to 0 and change the background colour of the tooltip to match this. Something like:

tooltip { font-size: 0; 
        background-color: #007194; 
        border-color: #007194; 
        border-radius: 0px; 
}

This will render it "invisible".

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