How to disable or delay tooltips

[MJQ]

Hi there,

I find the display of tooltips very annoying when I hover the mouse cursor over buttons in LibreOffice Writer. It would be ideal if they are only displayed after a certain delay, and not immediately which flickers rapidly as I drag the cursor over the buttons. If this is not possible, then I would like to disable it completely. Can anyone help?

[mikekaganski]

how to turn on tooltips

Hi Friends, I’ve looked in the offline help files for this, but they indicate that tooltips are always turned on. I don’t seem to have any. I suppose there’s a chance I turned them off, some time ago, but I don’t remember how I did it, if I did. I did find where I can turn on Extended Tooltips. But I think I probably just want regular tooltips. I also found something like tracking tooltips, but that seems to be enabled. Yet I don’t see any tooltips. I’ve also searched this forum, where I…

[MJQ]

Thanks. Is there no way to delay the tooltip? It’s disappointing if disabling is the only option, as I do like the tooltips when I need them…

[mikekaganski]

No - the timeout is fixed in the code (it is slightly greater - 1.5 s - for extended tooltips though, compared to ordinary tooltips which have 500-ms delay; see Options→LibreOffice→General, [ ] Extended tips in Help checkbox group).

[mikekaganski]

Converting comments into an answer.

Tooltip appearance timeout is hardcoded in LibreOffice source files, and isn’t configurable. It is, however, different for standard and extended tips (standard tips appear after 500 ms, while extended appear after 1500 ms) - see Options→LibreOffice→General, [ ] Extended tips in Help checkbox group.

To disable tooltips, you may look at my answer here.

[LeventeVagyok]

Based on Mike Kaganski’s answers, I found a way to disable tooltips just for the document content.

Tools→Options→LibreOffice→Advanced→Expert Configuration

Here I searched for “tips” in the top search bar.

Double-clicking a row that has a boolean value flips its value. (Highlighted in orange.)

Disabling “ShowContentTips” removes the annoying tooltip from your mouse cursor over the document, but still gives you tooltips over the toolbar buttons.

[Fenton]

The bloody ballon that pops up over most text (and menus) has become a serious impediment to writing text.
Sorry, but the preceding explanation is for PCs, not Macs. I now have LO version 7.5.9.2 and already went to Preferences->General: no helpful options. I then went to Preferences->Advanced->Expert Configuration, but there’s no way that I’m going to touch those options. Then I turned off “track changes”: didn’t help.

[Wanderer]

@Fenton

but there’s no way that I’m going to touch those options.

Ok - your choice. But toggling something unrelated will not help either.