Tooltips ? Hints ? What creates them on desktop ?

[tasmod]

If I hover the mouse pointer over the drive icons on the desktop I get a tooltip (?) with the size of the drive.

What creates these ?

What I would like it to do is show size plus free space left.

Is there a small app that does this, is it possible ?

[Patriot]

Hmmm .....

Those tooltips are generated in pup_event_frontend_d ... look for create_icon_func() and start whacking ... I'm in the midst of optimizing these scripts with the objective of creating own replacements in the future .....


Rgds

[tasmod]

Hi Patriot,
Thanks for info.

I looked through the script and deciphered most of it OK.

However it leads me to the conclusion it is a bit too much of a hassle and wouldn't suit some.

As far as I can see it would require mount and unmount of 'partitions' to get a reading. The tooltip script is generated from the file '/proc/partitions' which just contains the full partition size.