How to get rid of toolbar text?

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How to get rid of the text that appears at the bottom of all toolbar icons? It suddenly has shown up after a system crash although I didn't change anything and now I can't make it disappear:

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I tried to set the following setting with dconf-editor:

org.gnome.desktop.interface toolbar-style

to the value ›text‹ and logged out and in, but didn't help at all. What to do?

UPDATE: The setting in gconf is correct as shown by the screenshot: enter image description here

if you run the command: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface toolbar-style icons . to only have icons? — Roman Raguet, Oct 14 '13 at 18:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '13 at 18:35

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Run the following command in terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface toolbar-style 'icons'

The other valid values are: 'both', 'both-horiz', and 'text'.

The changes should be visible immediately, so you don't need any restart or re-login.

answered Oct 14 '13 at 18:35

Radu Rădeanu

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I already tried that (look at the comments of the original post) but didn't work out. – user5950 Oct 14 '13 at 18:37
@user5950 Have you tried exactly as I wrote? – Radu Rădeanu Oct 14 '13 at 18:39
Yes, I did it twice with copy and past. And I checked the value of that setting with gconf-editor. It is set to 'icons'. But the text is shown anyway. Very strange! – user5950 Oct 14 '13 at 18:43
@user5950 Then you have a bug because this is the right way. See http://askubuntu.com/q/5121/147044. Do you use any others configuration/tweak tools like dconf? – Radu Rădeanu Oct 14 '13 at 18:49
Yes, dconf is installed: should I remove it? Isn't it installed by default? – user5950 Oct 14 '13 at 18:54
@user5950 No, don't remove it! I asked if you use other apps like it. – Radu Rădeanu Oct 14 '13 at 19:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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I found out that this problem occurs when the Cinnamon ppa ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable is used. It is related with:

Nemo 2.0 does not render desktop correctly with Compiz

GTK2 applications are not themed correctly

Purging the ppa resolves all of those tree problems:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Oct 15 '13 at 18:25

user5950

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How to get rid of toolbar text?

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