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.

Slackware makes the jump to kernel 5.10.x and Xfce-4.16

Posted on Jan 03, 2021 by kingbeowulf

The pace of Slackware Current updates in December was incredible. Fast on the heals of KDE/Plasma 5, we have updates to Kernel 5.10 and then, just in time for Santa, Xfce-4.16. Numerous fixes and additional updates are happening throughout. Refer to the change logs for details: Slackware Change Logs

After the start of the New Year, can a Slackware 15.0 release be far behind?

Correct erroneous dual monitor position in Xfce

Posted on Jul 22, 2020 by kingbeowulf

For many years I used nvidia drivers and utilities along with an xorg.conf to set up 2 to 3 monitors on KDE and Xfce. Recently I switched to the new AMD NAVI GPUs (RX 590 and RX 5700 XT) and the new Slackware-current amdgpu driver stack. In KDE, setting up dual monitors was easy in their display GUI, but Xfce-4.12 was problematic. No matter what I did, the second monitor was always on the virtual right side of the primaty monitor, or the primary and secondary were switched. A workaround is to invoke xrandr directly: