[Denemo-devel] spastic tooltips won't go away

[Bric]

I was going to lump this into a bunch of "miscellania", but it is SOOO 
annoying and interfering, as well as long-standing, that I thought it 
deserved its own separate thread.

I am currently trying to normalize my 1.1.2 build (my git build has a 
different set of problems). On Ubuntu 14.04.

The tooltip balloon imposes itself regardless of my settings.  It 
flickers in frantically when I focus the mouse arrow in/on some menu 
element, within about a second.  I have gone to preferences and 
unchecked "highlight cursor", changed all my tooltip-related timeouts to 
long durations (like 10000 milliseconds) and also went under Help -> 
"Turn Excessive Tooltips (Off/On)".  To no avail!

thanks.