whenever I mouseover an icon on the desktop, a giant tooltip pops up with the name of the program and its icon. I had disable all tooltips for a while with gtk-enable-tooltips = 0 in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 however I do like to mouseover the clock to see the date sometimes, so I re-enabled them.
How to reduce the size of the tooltip for desktop icons? Is it something to do with previews?
Absurdly large XFCE tooltip icons
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Absurdly large XFCE tooltip icons
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Re: Absurdly large XFCE tooltip icons
Does anyone have any clues? I'm ready to try anything, even sudo rm -rf / if it will work
Re: Absurdly large XFCE tooltip icons
Menu > All Setting ( on the top ) > Desktop > Icons > Show Icon Tooltips, Size: xxx
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Re: Absurdly large XFCE tooltip icons
Nope, that controls the icon size. What about the popup tooltip that is about 1/4 the size of the screen? On mouseover.... MOUSEOVER?? What were they thinking?!? lol
Re: Absurdly large XFCE tooltip icons
No it does not. It controls tooltip size: Change the size from 128 or whatever it is currently to 48 or whatever size you desire.majest wrote:Nope, that controls the icon size. What about the popup tooltip that is about 1/4 the size of the screen? On mouseover.... MOUSEOVER?? What were they thinking?!? lol
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Re: Absurdly large XFCE tooltip icons
Waittaminute... you have an option that I don't have: Show icon tooltips [128].
I don't have that at all - it's just not there. I have xfce4 installed.
I don't have that at all - it's just not there. I have xfce4 installed.
Re: Absurdly large XFCE tooltip icons
I'm running Mint17 which may be the difference.
If you are on Mint13 use your favorite text editor and edit /home/user-name/.gtkrc-xfce.
Change this:
If you are on Mint13 use your favorite text editor and edit /home/user-name/.gtkrc-xfce.
Change this:
To this:style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
fg[SELECTED] = "#000000"
fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
Then logout and log in again for the change to take affect. Change "32" to whatever value works for you.style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
fg[SELECTED] = "#000000"
fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
XfdesktopIconView::tooltip-size = 32
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
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