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Can I disable the tooltip shown at the side of the Launcher icon when hovered by the mouse. These are nice, but I want to disable them, because when I press "Dash Home" button on the launcher, then want to write something on the dash, I can't see the letters because of the tooltip.

How can I disable the Unity tooltip from hiding search string in dash? I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I have given a screenshot of the launcher. My problem is basically with this

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Update 1

I have given advice to follow this answer in chat discussion, but nothing has changed.

Update 2

As an answer suggests, I updated unity to the latest version. It is now unity 5.12.0. as the below output indicates

$ unity --version
unity 5.12.0
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    I don't see that problem in Unity 3D: see [this screenshot](http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1340948084.png). What are you running? That doesn't look like the default launcher icon either... – ish Jun 29 '12 at 05:35
  • @izx, I am running Unity 3D in Edubuntu. I also have Ubuntu installed with Unity 3D. But both are same. Only the icon is different – Anwar Jun 29 '12 at 05:41
  • Can you take a screenshot with *Shutter*, with the *Capture Cursor* option enabled? I'm just confused because this behavior [was a bug, but was fixed before 11.10](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.launchpad.net%2Fbugs%2F747593&ei=OzztT8PGKcqK2gWYxKjhCg&usg=AFQjCNFwN9C_xMVlEHCvbr_u4KBCxjPpwQ&sig2=zkYBaz3nb7xqpXBO_Gvumw&cad=rja). – ish Jun 29 '12 at 05:45
  • @izx, I have updated the screenshot, with *capture cursor* enabled. – Anwar Jun 29 '12 at 06:06
  • Are you installing Unity 3D from external PPA, or From Ubuntu Repositories. Because frankly this doesn't happens in Ubuntu Unity 3D Dash Bar. – atenz Jun 29 '12 at 06:12
  • @tijybba Thanks, But this is happening in my Laptop with default installation. The iso is downloaded from Ubuntu site. And didn't install anything from PPA – Anwar Jun 29 '12 at 06:13
  • Have you done Updating after fresh install , since Unity has been updated twice (i guess) since release. This also enriches me to ask a new question, are the iso images updated . I guess i will post it as new question. – atenz Jun 29 '12 at 06:22

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I tried using the Live USB , your mentioned problem persists in Default Ubuntu 12.04 Unity (5.10.0-0ubuntu6) release, well you need to do a System update where currently Unity is updated to unity (5.12-0ubuntu1.1).

You can refer the Change Log, which states

Dash - Make statefulness of Dash Home and Dash Lenses consistent (LP: #914759))

Dash - Remove Dash Home shortcut icons (LP: #885738)

Dash text input does not get focus (LP: #774447)

Note: According to confirmed bug report here

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 5.12-0ubuntu1.1 unity (12-0ubuntu1.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  • Cherry pick upstream fixes.

    • Fix UnityViewWindow background when blur is disabled (LP: #989291)
    • App icon on the Unity Launcher lost track of running instance (LP: #772063)
    • No launcher icon or Alt+Tab entry for Gimp windows (LP: #995916)
    • Locked smuxi launcher icon does not indicate smuxi running status (LP: #999820)
    • Fix dash search field hidden by tooltips (LP: #978030)
    • Launcher is silent to screen reader users (LP: #949448)
    • Fix 3D apps running much slower under Unity (LP: #987304)
    • Reduced number of calls to ResultViewGrid::QueueDraw
    • Reduced number of calls to BGHash::RefreshColor -- Alan Pope Wed, 23 May 2012 18:10:49 +0100

    I guess for it to work , you will have to Enable the Precise-proposed repository option from Software Source in Update column.

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  • Try rebooting or resetting Unity. – atenz Jun 29 '12 at 08:32
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    Awesome find, @tijybba! **`precise-updates` has the update** - proposed is not needed. Anwar, make sure you have `precise-updates` in your `sources.list`, then do `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` -- then reboot! – ish Jun 29 '12 at 08:40
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    Yes !! Awesome work @tijybba. after resetting by `unity --reset` it worked! Thanks. @izx thanks you also – Anwar Jun 29 '12 at 08:48