Ubuntu Mate Menu preferences

Support & Help Requests
1

So when you right click the mintmenu in Linux Mint Mate, There is a preferences context menu item which opens a window where you can disable menu item tooltips…There is no such thing for Ubuntu Mate…

I looked at disabling ALL tooltips by creating a .gtkrc-2.0 in the /home/username folder and setting gtk-enable-tooltips = 0 , But it will disable ALL tooltips and I don’t want that …

Is there a way to disable the tooltips only for the menu items and not everything else ?

The reason I want to do this is because when I hover the mouse over menu items from top to bottom, The mouse hovers over the current item’s tooltip and then the next menu item’s background gets darker and then its tooltip is shown.I don’t like the way it behaves…this doesn’t happen when I hover the mouse over menu items from bottom to top…Is there a way to fix this ? or Is there a way to disable tooltips for the menu items only ? Or is there any other menu that I can install which doesn’t behave that way ?

Many Thanks

2

And Also, I installed Mate Tweak and there are only 3 panel layouts…how do i install other layouts so that I can choose them from the mate tweak ?

3

Depending on which layout you’re using and which version of Ubuntu-Mate installed you might be looking at BriskMenu, not a version of MintMenu. Maybe check and see if there’s a way to do what you’re looking for in BriskMenu?

Also assuming this is BriskMenu you’re dealing with it may make sense to post this question in the SolusOS forums as well, since the BriskMenu is currently being co-developed with them.

Please post back with more details so we can help you better!

4

The following works in Ubuntu Mate 16.04.4

  1. Open dconf-editor
  2. Go to org > mate > panel > general
  3. Uncheck tooltips-enabled

If you do not have dconf-editor installed, you can do so by opening a terminal and entering the following command.

sudo apt install dconf-editor

Edit: This works in Ubuntu Mate 18.04 LTS as well.

5

That didn’t help … I am going to try this later :

$ vi ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

and add

tooltip {
opacity: 0;
}

to it.

6

This corrupted everything…now I have to reinstall the whole system :frowning:

This is a minor bug in the brisk menu that should be reported…

7

Sorry @Xerxes1, the instructions I posted works for the traditional Gnome2 panel layout, which is what I use. I see now that your probably referring to the Brisk menu that ships with Ubuntu Mate 18.04.

8

I just switched to “MATE menu” … it is MUCH MUCH better than brisk…brisk has a lot of bugs…

9

Which version of ubuntu mate are you on?

10

running Ubuntu Mate 18.04…