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gastori
Asked: 2018-11-22 06:31:56 +0800 CST

Disabling the mouse over tootips [duplicate]

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How can I disable the mouse over tooltips on Ubuntu 18.04? When I pass my mouse on any icon the lunch dock or perhaps anywhere else, tooltips appear.

I would like to disable this feature/behavior.

gnome-shell 18.04

2 Answers

  1. The option to disable tooltips is not exposed in the user interface. You need to edit a config file.

    To disable tooltips, edit the setting.ini file of your theme. System wide themes are installed in /usr/share/themes. Themes can also be installed on a per-user basis in a hidden .themes folder in the home folder of the user.

    The default theme of Ubuntu 18.04 is Ambiance. In the "Ambiance" folder in the above mentionned themes folder, you will find two gtk3 folders, gtk-3.0 and gtk-3.20. In each of these folders, you will find a settings.ini folder. Edit or add a line that reads:

    gtk-enable-tooltips = false

    to disable tooltips in GTK3 applications, including Gnome Shell, aka the Ubuntu Desktop.

    To disable tooltips in GTK2 applications, edit the file .gtkrc-2.0 file and edit or add a similar line:

    gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
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  2. For Ubuntu 18.04 with GNOME Flashback

    In case your problem is still not sufficiently solved, here is something that worked for me under Ubuntu 18.04 but I also GNOME Flashback. Install the dconf editor. Type:

    sudo apt-get install dconf-editor

    Then, open the editor and search for "tooltips". In my case, it was sufficient to set the buttons for "show-tooltips" as well as for "/org/gnome-panel/general/enable-tooltips" to "off".

    Edit: In case you can not find some of options, you may try playing around with other seemingly relevant options.

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