Printable View
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 / Gnome
Is there a way to get rid of the, in my opinion, useless info you get when
hovering the mouse over an icon/applet in taskbar or others. For example
hovering over the Firefox icon shows "Firefox Web Browse, Browse the World
Wide Web"
Iordani wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 / Gnome
>
> Is there a way to get rid of the, in my opinion, useless info you get when
> hovering the mouse over an icon/applet in taskbar or others. For example
> hovering over the Firefox icon shows "Firefox Web Browse, Browse the World
> Wide Web"
>
>[/color]
Hover over the icon, right click, select 'properties' and change the
name and description to suit yourself. That works for me.
Iordani wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 / Gnome
>
> Is there a way to get rid of the, in my opinion, useless info you get when
> hovering the mouse over an icon/applet in taskbar or others. For example
> hovering over the Firefox icon shows "Firefox Web Browse, Browse the World
> Wide Web"[/color]
The "easiest" methods would be to not hover, or to move the mouse
somewhere else. ;-)
Slightly more difficult methods are available, like those offered by
Mike and SFB.
Or you could use a TTY terminal <Ctrl><Alt><F1> through <Ctrl><Alt><F6>
all the time.
Other ridiculous fixes would be to killx or back down to a lesser runlevel.
Personally, I sometimes find the info useful, and wouldn't want to
remove it.
Are you picking at straws? ;-)
--
John
No Microsoft, Apple, AT&T, Intel, Novell, Trend Micro, nor Ford products were used in the preparation or transmission of this message.
The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me what I can't do. The GPL sounds like it was written by a human being, who wants me to know what I can do.
Michael B. Trausch wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 20:09:31 -0500
> "Michael B. Trausch" <mike@trausch.us> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:59:44 +0100
>> Iordani <somewhere@earth.invalid> wrote:[color=darkred]
>> >
>> > Is there a way to get rid of the, in my opinion, useless info you
>> > get when hovering the mouse over an icon/applet in taskbar or
>> > others. For example hovering over the Firefox icon shows "Firefox
>> > Web Browse, Browse the World Wide Web"
>> >[/color]
>>
>> Unsetting the /apps/panel/global/tooltips_enabled key in GConf should
>> do what you're looking for.
>>[/color]
>
> Sorry, I should clarify this; it will _partially_ do what you're
> looking for. It only controls the panel itself. You'll have to check
> to see if there are equivalent settings for the panel applet(s) that
> you use, since they are independent running Bonobo applet objects that
> are just "docked" into the panel. I don't see a way to disable their
> tooltips at the moment.[/color]
Thanks a lot! That will do just fine for now. Pew! That was a relief, to
get rid of those ones!
John F. Morse wrote:
[color=blue]
> Personally, I sometimes find the info useful, and wouldn't want to
> remove it.[/color]
YMMV. At least now you know how, should you change your mind.
Michael B. Trausch wrote:
[color=blue]
> Well, I can't find the answer for all of them for you, but I can
> share with you what I learned in the couple of hours of hunting
> yesterday:
>
> * GTK+ has a property "gtk-enable-tooltips" (or maybe
> "gtk_enable_tooltips") that supposedly can be applied to
> widgets since 2.14.0 (Intrepid uses 2.14.4, for reference).
> * This property can (supposedly) be placed in your
> ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.
>
> That's not a lot. ;-)
>
> What I don't know is how to use the gtkrc to apply that property to the
> panel and all it's children. I imagine there _must_ be a way, but that
> seems to be a question that someone who knows GTK+ at a much lower
> level than I would have to answer.[/color]
Thanks for your time and effort.
I have tried to find answers myself too but nu luck so far. I'm surprised
they seem so hard to find. Surely I can't be the only one who don't want
to see "Click to view your appointments and tasks" every time you place the
cursor on the panel clock. How can you *not* know that already if using
Ubuntu? Hmmm...