How to remove the text frame "talking head frame" from my UI?

Sarahden-burning-legion · July 10, 2021, 12:42am

This is dreadful to game play as it covers key parts of my screen and UI especially as a healer. How do we remove this useless popup without needing to download bloatware ie another addon for something that should just have a toggle button?

Nobody that I ask or talk to seems to have a bloody clue what I am taking about, which actually blows my mind.

Darthwraith-blackhand · July 10, 2021, 12:44am

Only floating head i can think of is khadgar in ur class hall in legion only way to get rid of it is to the the starting quest.

Srilanni-thorium-brotherhood · July 10, 2021, 12:49am

OP is talking about the “Talking Head” chat dialogue box that often pops up with quests and world quests. There’s no way to turn it off via the default interface, but you can download the “Be Quiet” addon and silence them. (Sorry, I know you were hoping for non-bloatware, etc)

Tinkerrific-dalaran · July 10, 2021, 1:34pm

These addons will hide the interface but not turn off the sound: Hide Talking Head and MoveAnything.

Dahk-sentinels · July 10, 2021, 4:35pm

HideTalkingHead (Ketho 2016, public domain) is only three short lines of code that could be turned into a macro:

/run hooksecurefunc("TalkingHeadFrame_PlayCurrent", function() TalkingHeadFrame:Hide() end)

Just press that once every time you log on. It will work for sure if you press it before the frame ever appears. However, I’m not sure if it gets rid of the frame while its already playing, so here’s an expanded solution that still fits in a macro:

/run if(TalkingHeadFrame) then TalkingHeadFrame:Hide() end if (not thfHooked) then thfHooked = true hooksecurefunc("TalkingHeadFrame_PlayCurrent", function() TalkingHeadFrame:Hide() end) end

PS. While I 100% agree there should be an in-game option (or at least a cvar), perhaps you could have asked more kindly than labelling addons as ‘bloatware’ in your request.