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I went to the GUI feedback session at WWDC last year and in the midst of all the yelling and screaming over the new dock and menu bar there was one guy with a wholly different mission: be able to turn off tooltips. His complaint (a valid one, I feel) is that every time he wants to sit and think about what’s on-screen, a little yellow box comes up where the mouse is, and there’s no real “safe spot” for the mouse that doesn’t do this in most applications. So, I present a little tip I discovered shortly afterwards and appear to have not written up. I dedicate this to Tooltip Guy, wherever he is. defaults write -g NSInitialToolTipDelay 99999 You now have 99.999 seconds to think at a given time. Replace
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Wasn’t that the guy from Circus Ponies?
Good find! I remember the occasion as well, I think he asks for this one each year…
Another reason not to pop for Leopard…
Thank You
thank you thank you thank you.
especially in stickies (the other super-annoying feature of which is that you can’t keep the damn spell checking turned off). this horrible tooltip proliferation has driven me progressively more and more crazy as it invades more and more of the os. it’s pretty bad in xcode too. another bad idea from windows stuck into osx probably because someone thought it was a good idea to make switchers feel welcome.
well, fuck that. just keep the damn yellow popups out of my damn way.
again, thanks for this tip!