Very interesting, thank you very much Dan.
My duckduckgoing resulted in those windows specific “settings” as well, but a) I was/am unable to figure out what changes that would require/allow from the user’s end, and b) I didn’t realize from those search results what you say, that SU merely inherits the user’s system settings.
In some way it does depend on the software being used it seems: Example, right here on forum pages, in ff browser but also seamonkey, hovering on any “tooltip” enabled element does show the helpful text as many hours… as I don’t move the mouse away. Same in a lot of programs I am using.
So the 5sec limit does then get “overwritten” by all those softwares, just not by SU, you mean?
This is what confuses me.
Either way, if someone like you (well, you) says it isn’t possible to change, then I am served: It isn’t. 