how to disable yellow tooltips in 10.6 ?

[dave12345]

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...

 

[aukun]

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!

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...

 

[LPZ]

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!

You can enter the following in Terminal:

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.