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MkFly

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From: Mars

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 141

Can't move desktop icons with "gtk-enable-tooltips = 0" in Xfce

Tooltips annoy me, so I set:

~/.gtkrc-2.0:

gtk-enable-tooltips = 0

Which works, but now in Xfce, I can't move my desktop icons, and I can't make the transparent selection rectangle on the desktop any bigger than around 16px square before it stops.  As soon as I re-enable tooltips by removing the line from .gtkrc-2.0, everything goes back to normal.  Anybody seen this?

I found this topic on xfce.org which seems to be the same thing:
Can not move icons on desktop
http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=5405.0

I'm awaiting xfce.org "moderator approval" to join the site.

Last edited by MkFly (2010-05-30 05:18:14)

MkFly

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From: Mars

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 141

Re: Can't move desktop icons with "gtk-enable-tooltips = 0" in Xfce

Well, my account at xfce.org is "still awaiting admin approval," not sure who's awake over there.

Can anybody else using Xfce replicate this?

MkFly

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From: Mars

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 141

Re: Can't move desktop icons with "gtk-enable-tooltips = 0" in Xfce

I don't like to bump, but it's been over two weeks and my registration at the Xfce forums is still awaiting approval, so I can't post anything there.

Surely I'm not the only Archer using Xfce who dislikes tooltips?  Has anybody seen this, or is there a "proper" way of disabling GTK tooltips globally in Xfce?

stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 1,191

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Re: Can't move desktop icons with "gtk-enable-tooltips = 0" in Xfce

I can't say I've been bothered by any tooltip that I remember since installing Arch a few months ago... I also removed all icons from my XFCE Desktop a few days ago, since they are always covered by windows anyway.

(I know I'm probably not helping; just figured I'd answer so you didn't feel ignored .)

MkFly

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From: Mars

Registered: 2009-12-10

Posts: 141

Re: Can't move desktop icons with "gtk-enable-tooltips = 0" in Xfce

@stqn,

I may end up doing just that (removing the desktop icons), but I'd really rather find the proper solution to this.  Although truth-be-told, I rarely actually do use the desktop icons.  Hopefully Xfce 4.8 will arive on my desktop sooner rather than later so I can see how it fares with regards to this issue.

Thanks for replying, in any case.

gnumdk

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Registered: 2009-10-15

Posts: 175

Re: Can't move desktop icons with "gtk-enable-tooltips = 0" in Xfce

http://bugzilla.xfce.org/

gnomiik

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Registered: 2011-08-23

Posts: 13

Re: Can't move desktop icons with "gtk-enable-tooltips = 0" in Xfce

There is a way to disable tooltips for the task bar only and keep tooltips for the rest of your programs. To me this is what is desirable.

Download sources for xfce panel and extract:

I got version 4.8.5

edit xfce4-panel-4.8.5/plugins/tasklist/tasklist-widget.c

Find this line: gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text (GTK_WIDGET (child->button), name);

Comment it out

//gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text (GTK_WIDGET (child->button), name);

run configure, then make

cp libtasklist.so (plugins/tasklist/.libs/libtasklist.so)
to xfce plugins dir (/usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins). Move mouse over panel Voila!

gnomiik

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Registered: 2011-08-23

Posts: 13

Re: Can't move desktop icons with "gtk-enable-tooltips = 0" in Xfce

Forgot to mention that of course Drag and drop works with this method.