If you want to disable ALL tooltips add this line to ~/.gtkrc-2.0. Note: Users have noted some problems with this method:
gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
If you want to keep tooltips functional, here's how to at least reduce the footprint of the desktop icon tooltips by eliminating the image in the tooltip. This also goes in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. No side effect here but YMMV:
style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
XfdesktopIconView::tooltip-size = 0
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
Note that if you are using the Clearlooks-Phenix-Purpy theme, this fix to match the purpy wallpaper is already included there:
style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 0
XfdesktopIconView::tooltip-size = 0
base[NORMAL] = "#000000"
base[SELECTED] = "#94928d"
base[ACTIVE] = "#b5b3ac"
fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"
fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" }
# xfce4 stuff
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
This is a revised 'reprint' of this post to the dng list:
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/2 … 84.en.html