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how to disable yellow tooltips in 10.6 ?

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dave12345

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does anyone know how to disable these annoying tips that pop up all over the place in snow leopard ? I've found a few terminal hacks but none of them seem to do the trick.


thanks for any help...
 

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Damned Tooltips

I hate those annoying yellow boxes and I also tryed those Terminal commands which did not work!

Like you, I wish that someone would explain how to get rid of them!


dave12345 said:
does anyone know how to disable these annoying tips that pop up all over the place in snow leopard ? I've found a few terminal hacks but none of them seem to do the trick.


thanks for any help...
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aukun said:
I hate those annoying yellow boxes and I also tryed those Terminal commands which did not work!

Like you, I wish that someone would explain how to get rid of them!
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You can enter the following in Terminal:

Code: 
defaults write -g NSInitialToolTipDelay -int 60000

This delays the appearance of the tooltip box for 60000 milliseconds = 60 seconds.

The catch is that it doesn't work for all apps. It does for Safari, but not iTunes, for example. Some apps must have the delay "hard-coded" into them.
 
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