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Questions tagged [tooltip]

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Forcing browser tooltips to show immediately

In Firefox, I have a small delay, (maybe half a second), before tooltips show up. In Chrome, there's a similar delay, and a fade-in animation, making it even slower. For some applications, this delay can become a serious annoyance. @FF, I tried to…
Balmipour
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How can I change the tooltip color in Windows 10?

There are ways to change the fontsize of, some, but not all, tooltips in Win10. But I wanna change the tooltip COLOR, like it was possible in WinXP until Win7. Specifically, I want the tooltip background to be BLACK and the tooltip font to be…
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Is it possible to change the tooltip delay for files in Explorer on Windows 7 or 10?

In Explorer, one can view tooltips for files by hovering over them, as below: This tooltip can show some helpful information, such as full file names which are too long for the current Name column width: Note that this appears to be a separate…
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How can I increase tooltip size in Firefox 57?

I'm currently on Firefox 56 and have seen the warning that many add-ons are going to break in 57, which is coming soon. I'm using one of the deprecated add-ons to increase the text size in tooltips, and am looking for another way to solve that…
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In OSX the cursor often covers a tool tip you want to see. Is the orientation of the cursor able to be modified?

In OSX, the "hand" cursor and the arrow pointer often are oriented so as to cover an underlying tool tip. Normally, this is not a problem. However, sometimes you want to see the tool tip but can't. Is there any way to reorient the cursors so they…
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Accessing tooltips with Vimperator

I use Navigation popups on Wikipedia which is very handy to not to jump over multiple articles opening them in new tabs. It requires a mouseover action to display the short preview of the article. I want them to be displayed using Vimperator as I…
user373230
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Chrome tooltips appear too quickly

Since I last updated Chrome, the little hover-triggered tooltips (the ones defined by the title attribute) have been appearing way too fast for me, just a split second after I've moved my cursor on top of an element. For instance, suppose right now…
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Mediainfo recognising jpg files as video. Glitch or jpg fie issue?

So i've just scanned a bunch of photos and the resulting files are just standard JPG but for some reason MediaInfo is picking them up as Video? For instance i have a 1.86mb jpg file (according to windows properties) but mediainfo hover over tooltip…
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Get rid of PivotTable help on Excel for Mac

Every time I start up Excel For Mac 2011 and build a Pivot Table, Excel feels it's needed to remind me in a modal what Pivot Tables do ("PivotTables summarize data and reveal patterns and trends"). Is there a way to disable that modal completely?
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Windows not showing version (or other resources) for files in tooltip

Whenever I hover the mouse cursor over executable file types (.exe, .dll, etc.) in Windows Explorer, it only shows the Type, Size, and (Modified) Date of the file in the tooltip instead of the Company, Version, Description, etc. This used to work…
Synetech
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Tooltip catcher

Is there any software with the following features: It could be used to copy the tooltip text. For example, if I point mouse to button (say in Adobe Photoshop, it will display a long text). Then if I press a key combination, I could get the tool tip…
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How to close aberrant tooltips in Windows

So, here I am, trying to watch The Cleveland Show (TM). And, as happens from time to time, some program or another has left a modal tooltip. I don't know which program; how can I lose the tooltip, short of logoff/reboot? Currently happening on…
Mawg
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Taskbar Pinned Icons - Change Tooltip

I'm looking to change the tooltip for when icons are hovered over for opened programs on the taskbar. Is it possible / how, do I go about making them say a custom text per window open, in a white dialog that is a good size to clearly read? Kind…
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Android Studio error cursor hover tooltip/suggestion disappears instantly

I have had this issue for a while but just ignored it by viewing Dart Analysis but basically when coding in Android Studio, if I come across a code error, mistake etc. when I hover over the error, usually a tooltip should popup explaining the issue…
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Adding comments on certain phrases in Word 2013

I would like to be able to allow the reader of a (readonly) Word (2013) Document to hover over a word or phrase, in the style of a translated text, whereupon they get a very simple (being key) tool-tip (Screentip) or comment like that which pops up,…
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