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cap10p

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Registered: 2018-12-14

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Installed Xfce on Ubuntu 18.10, no tooltip is shown on desktop icons

I usually install Ubuntu base using the netinstaller ISO, then install Xfce and other software on that. It was good till 18.04, but I recently installed 18.10, and when I hover over any icon on the desktop no tooltip is shown even though it is enabled in the settings.
Any help is very much welcomed, thanks.

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Installed Xfce on Ubuntu 18.10, no tooltip is shown on desktop icons

Hello and welcome.

I believe this is a gtk3 bug. The current workaround is to specify an xsettings cursor size:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/CursorThemeSize -s 16

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cap10p

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Registered: 2018-12-14

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Re: Installed Xfce on Ubuntu 18.10, no tooltip is shown on desktop icons

Hi! That fixed it, thank you very much.