Disabling Menu Bar Text And Tooltips (Mint 18 Cinnamon 64)

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zessen
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Disabling Menu Bar Text And Tooltips (Mint 18 Cinnamon 64)

Post by zessen »

Friends,

I just installed and customized Mint Cinnamon 64, but here's two annoying things I can't figure out:

The text at the bottom of the menu bar when hovering over an application looks cheap. Anyway to get rid of it?

[image]http://i.imgur.com/3Fnvgob.png[/image]

Annoying yellow tooltips appear system wide. Anyway to get rid of these as well?

[image]http://i.imgur.com/rmQGwAZ.png[/image]

Thanks.
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Re: Disabling Menu Bar Text And Tooltips (Mint 18 Cinnamon 64)

Post by shelleyfrank »

In your home folder look for .gtkrc-2.0
Open the file in a text editor and add the following line

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gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
Save the file, logout and login again.

The yellow tooltips will now be disabled.
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