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Hide Tooltips in Xfce 4.16

Posted on Mar 29, 2021 by kingbeowulf


A discussion came up some time ago in the Linuxquestions Slackware forum: Xfce for Slackware Users

It seems there are a few who dislike the icon tool tip pop-ups in the Xfce panel. Back when, there was a settings that would toggle this functionality. In Xfce 4.16 there isn't...or is there?

If you enable desktop compositing (Settings -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Compositor), you can set the tool tip to transparent, effectively making it disappear. Simply edit the CSS in $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css to set the tool tip opacity to zero and restart Xfce.

1@import 'colors.css';
2tooltip {
3    opacity: 0;
4}

Of course, this means that any program using this GTK3 CSS style will also have the tooltips become invisible.


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