{"id":1621,"date":"2013-09-12T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2013-09-12T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T07:12:10","slug":"disable-mouse-over-tooltips-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/disable-mouse-over-tooltips-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Mouse-over Tooltips in Ubuntu 13.04 \/ 13.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial will show you how to disable the mouse-over tooltip messages in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring and Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy using CCSM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tooltip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tooltip.jpg\" alt=\"tooltip\" width=\"430\" height=\"198\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tooltip.jpg 430w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tooltip-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to do it using the CompizConfig Settings Manager by setting totally transparent tooltips. So that you can see them. <b>NOTE:<\/b> This method won&#8217;t work for the tooltips for Unity Launcher.<\/p>\n<p>To get started, install CCSM in Ubuntu Software Center. You don&#8217;t have to do something special, just search for and install <i>CompizConfig Settings Manager<\/i>. Then you can open it from Unity Dash.<\/p>\n<p>Open CCSM, click on <b>&#8216;Opacity, Brightness and Saturation&#8217;<\/b> to go to its configuration page. Then enable this plugin, click <i>new<\/i> to add a rule, type in <b>Tooltip<\/b> and set the value to 0 and finally close it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/disable-tooltips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/disable-tooltips.jpg\" alt=\"disable tooltips ubuntu\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/disable-tooltips.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/disable-tooltips-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. To restore, just remove the rule in the plugin&#8217;s configuration page. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial will show you how to disable the mouse-over tooltip messages in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring and Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy using CCSM. It&#8217;s easy to do it using the CompizConfig Settings Manager by setting totally transparent tooltips. So that you can see them. NOTE: This method won&#8217;t work for the tooltips for Unity Launcher. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[587,15,37],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modify-ubuntu","tag-tooltips","tag-ubuntu-13-04","tag-ubuntu-13-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}