Tooltip aggressive and annoying

Type: Bug

I know its been reported in the past #141214 and #139818 and those are marked closed at this point, but the tool tip is way to aggressive, it covers up the code around my pointer that I often use for context and when I try to click to insert my cursor I end up clicking on hyperlinks instead. It makes the experience incredibly annoying.

VS Code version: Code 1.127.0 (4fe60c8b1cdac1c4c174f2fb180d0d758272d713, 2026-06-30T10:52:33+02:00)
OS version: Linux x64 6.17.0-35-generic
Modes:

System Info

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Machine model name:
Machine model version:
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
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opengl: enabled_on
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skia_graphite: disabled_off
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: disabled_software
vulkan: enabled_on
webgl: enabled
webgpu: enabled
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webnn: disabled_off|
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