A tooltip is usually a pop-up box containing extra information about an item, which appears when a user hovers their cursor over it.
Questions tagged [tooltip]
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How to change tooltip's background color in Xfce?
How do I change tooltip's background color on Ubuntu desktop "Xfce". I know how to change in Gnome but I can't find out how to do so in Xfce.
Tooltip's background color in Eclipse is black, and font's color is black too.
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how to remove tooltip message feature from all of Ubuntu 12.04 desktop and user applications?
I searched and not able to find a way to do this.
I find this very annoying. After installing 12.04, I keep getting these tooltip messages from all the applications I use. I want to remove this feature.
For example, now when I move the mouse to…
Nasser
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How do I remove the tool tips on the launch bar?
The title is the question. These tool tips stay until I try to click past them. They're annoying since they constantly pop up and block the view of what I'm trying to do. Unfortunately I need the launch bar because Ubuntu is running on VMware and…
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Ubuntu 20.04 How to disable mouse hover tooltips over Dock
When I was running Ubuntu 18.04, I used the answer here to disable the tooltips when hovering over the dock by the mouse. After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04, that solution no longer works.
Is there a workaround to disable tooltips for Dock only as…
user545149
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Ubuntu 18.04 Dock mouse hover tooltips - how to disable?
I need to know if it is possible and how to disable the Ubuntu 18.04 Dock tool-tips for mouse hover the pinned application.
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Unity equivalent to gnome drawers and/or unique icons
Back when I was using gnome I had a number of quick shortcuts to various applications with custom switches tucked away in "drawers". It meant a two-click distance to things like starting and stopping servers, or gaining a shell in a particular…
tudor -Reinstate Monica-
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How to disable Ubuntu launcher tooltip text?
The tooltip text (hover) in the Unity launcher obscures my window previews and is rather unnecessary in general. Is there a way to disable it?
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Is there a way to change the delay of the Tooltip on Browsers?
I don't like the long delay for Tooltip.I was wondering if there was a way to change the delay of the tooltip in Chrome brower.
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Why is the tooltip hiding Dash Search on 12.04?
Can I disable the tooltip shown at the side of the Launcher icon when hovered by the mouse. These are nice, but I want to disable them, because when I press "Dash Home" button on the launcher, then want to write something on the dash, I can't see…
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cursor tooltip broken ubuntu 18.04
Original image for Dock
Original image for web application hinted element
In case of hovering cursor over an application icon on the Dock panel, or over hinted elements in browser, hint text is shown incorrectly.
Not only this image also many apps…
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How can I edit tooltips for unity launcher icons
I want to change the tooltips for some icons in unity launcher. Is there any way we can do that?
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Launcher tooltip display issues
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04.1, and it seems that I have some issues with the launcher: if I hover the mouse on an icon, it shows a horizontal line instead of the icon's name. If I hover it again, then it will show me the correctly displayed…
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Tooltips in Geany: improve or disable?
Ubuntu 20.04.1
Theme: Yaru light
Geany v 1.36
In Geany, mouse-over tooltips have a big padding and are positioned such that they regularly cover up the things I am trying to look at.
The unnecessary tooltips are especially annoying when trying to…
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How can I resize the size of right-click tooltip menu on Ubuntu dock?
I just don't like that size of the menu when I right-click on Ubuntu docked icons, please help me if you can.
See attached screenshot for clarity.
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Remove KDE Plasma tooltips
Simple question here. Does anybody know how to remove those tooltips Plasma shows every time you hover a button?
Like this one:
Deison Picoli
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