Anyway to turn off the footer when you start a game?

[Jiryn]

Whenever I start a game on my RetroPi there is a little footer saying what I am playing and the controller I am using for a couple seconds.
Anyway to turn this off?

Just a personal preference.

[simpleethat]

@Jiryn I'm fairly certain to disable it for all retroarch cores edit the following file: /configs/all/retroarch.cfg

search for the line: video_font_enable = true

change it to: video_font_enable = false

I can double check for you after dinner when I can fiddle with my pi.

Yeah so that didn't work... Not really sure why, the comment above suggests that's what it would do but no luck with false or "false". I also tried commenting out the line and just leaving it blank to no success. Which now I'm at a loss since that's where all the other Onscreen Notification settings are.

You can do it from the Retroarch GUI (select + X in a game or from the Retropie Menu of emulation station)
Once in the Retroarch GUI Navigate as follows:
Settings -> Onscreen Display -> Onscreen Notifications
The first item there is Onscreen Notifications with the default value of ON just change it to OFF
You can save it under the CONFIGURATION FILE option back in the Main Menu.

I'd really like to know why I can't seem to manually edit it that way. When doing it form the Retroarch GUI and saving to a new config file that's the exact value that gets changed.

[Jiryn]

Even with it off, the controller notification kept popping up.
Odd

Though I did get it to save correctly now!
Thank you for your help so far.

[Jiryn]

@simpleethat
Turned off all notifications, but it still has a popup telling me when the config is saved, and that I'm using an Xbox Type controller in port 0 whenever I start a game.. odd.

[mitu]

What version of RetroPie / RetroArch are you using ?

[Jiryn]

@mitu
4.5.18 running on a B+
I'm referring to the little popup in the lower left hand corner here

[mitu]

You need to disable also the Graphics Widgets option, which is right below the Onscreen Notifications option.

[simpleethat]

@mitu there you go again, always teaching us stuff. Keep it up!

[Jiryn]

@mitu
Odd, I don't have that option

EDIT
I found WIdgets under user interface
When I turned them off, I not got a yellow text?

FINAL EDIT!!
FIGURED IT OUT!
By turning off BOTH I got rid of the popups!

I've been recording walkthroughs and streams and didn't want the popups there!
Thank you soo much!!
Thank you to everyone who replied!!!

Now I just gotta either go to every system and set it as default, or find a way to make this universal default.

[mitu]

@Jiryn If you start RetroArch from the RetroPie menu, all settings configured from there will apply to all systems/cores.

[Mercury]

@simpleethat said in Anyway to turn off the footer when you start a game?:

Onscreen Notifications

Something extra that people might find useful. I had the same problem getting rid of those notifications, but editing RetroArch via its GUI was creating havoc. I managed to achieve the same result by editing /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

Firstly I did this:
Enable usage of OSD messages.
video_font_enable = "false"

but the secret sauce is to add this line
menu_enable_widgets = "false"