intelliJ speed up tool tip appearance

Question

I'm new to intelliJ and sometimes like to use the "tool tips" (or whatever the kids are calling it these days - the thing that pops up when your mouse hovers over it) to find out what the different buttons do.

Annoyingly, sometimes i have to wait more than a heartbeat for the tool tip to appear. Is it possible to edit the speed with which said tips appear in intelliJ when I hover my mouse over a tool-tip-enabled item?

EDIT i am running 12.0.1 - one solution below is for 12.1.3+ (as noted in the comments), any ideas for below 12.1.3

Answer 1

There is a setting in the Settings window.

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Edit

This seems to be available from version 12.1.3 only.

You can although edit the idea.vmoptions file and add a line like this at the end:

-Dide.tooltip.initialDelay=200

This makes the tooltip appear much faster (at least in some areas). Try by hovering on a tab in the editor pane. It will pop up very fast. Then close IntelliJ and change the value to 20000 and try again. As you will notice it will take 20 seconds (as expected).

For example try hovering over buttons as you describe in your question. By setting the delay to a very low value the tooltip appears immediately.