How Do I Turn Off Tooltips?

[David Brown]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:10:08AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>Marlowe <marlowe at tularosa.net> writes:
>
>> I have searched Help and Archives without success trying to discover how 
>> to turn off tooltips.  Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Ummm... why would you want to do that?  I honestly have no idea how
>to turn it off, or if gtk even lets you turn off tooltips.

Honestly, they can sometimes be quite annoying, although I've never
been bothered by the ones in Gnucash.  Where they're a problem is when
they obscure something that you're trying to edit.

However, if you have at least gtk 2.14, you should be able to turn it
off by setting gtk-enable-tooltips to false in the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file,
I'm not sure of the exact syntax, since I can't test it, but I think
it is just a line like

    gtk-enable-tooltips = "FALSE"

in the file .gtkrc-2.0

You can probably also find this option in gconf as well.  Earlier
versions don't allow them to be disabled.  The only postings I'm able
to find about the setting are the GTK API docs, and various people
complaining that it doesn't work.

David