Comments on: Turn Off GNOME Panel Tooltips with Compiz Fusion

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:24:08 +0000

@taurusx5: You have checked the option that allows fullscreen windows to be drawn without redirection to textures (general options). When only one fullscreen window is visible (opera, mplayer, …) will draw that window directly instead of rendering it to a texture and then render that texture with window decorations on the desktop. As soon as you right-click you open a second window and compiz can no longer render the opera window directly on screen. For example the menu you open could be blurred transparent and require the ‘background’ as a texture. So compiz starts rendering everything to texture again and this is where the flickering occurs. This feature is most useful for games I think. Just uncheck the option in compiz if you don’t play fullscreen games.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:35:49 +0000

I agree with Simon… Awesome.

I’ve been wanting this for a couple of years.

Thank you very much.

By: tommy_b

tommy_b — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:03:53 +0000

I know this was driving me crazy exactly because the tooltips would NOT go away by unselecting them in gconf.

thanks tom!

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:17:18 +0000

Awesome, been trying to figure out how to do this for *months*…

By: taurusx5

taurusx5 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:31:09 +0000

Hi, tom. I have a problem with opera in ubuntu 7.10. When I run opera in full screen, the screen flickers whenever I right click on my mouse. One option is to disable compiz-fusion or visual effects. But, do you know how I can eliminate the flickering without having to disable compiz-fusion? Thanks!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:52:33 +0000

You should be able to uncheck /apps/panel/global/tooltips_enabled in gconf.