# How to increase the display time of the pop-up box when hovering points?
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-the-display-time-of-the-pop-up-box-when-hovering-points/17440
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [February 12, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-the-display-time-of-the-pop-up-box-when-hovering-points/17440 "2026-02-12T14:54:35Z")
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### Author:  [@CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/CsatiZoltan)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-the-display-time-of-the-pop-up-box-when-hovering-points/17440/1 "2026-02-12T14:54:35Z")
Hi,
I click on the _Hover Points On_ button to show point data. After about 10 seconds, the pop-up box disappears. When there are many field values associated with a point, I don’t have time to read them. Yes, I know you can copy the data on the clipboard, but it would be handy if I could set the time until point/cell data are displayed. Is it possible to set somewhere?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-the-display-time-of-the-pop-up-box-when-hovering-points/17440/2 "2026-02-13T08:50:37Z")
I’m afraid there is no such settings, it would be simple to add though.
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### Author:  [@CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/CsatiZoltan)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-the-display-time-of-the-pop-up-box-when-hovering-points/17440/3 "2026-02-13T08:56:23Z")
Are you interested in a merge request? With some guidance, I could take this task.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-the-display-time-of-the-pop-up-box-when-hovering-points/17440/4 "2026-02-13T08:59:35Z")
Yes please!
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### Author:  [@CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/CsatiZoltan)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 9:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-the-display-time-of-the-pop-up-box-when-hovering-points/17440/5 "2026-02-13T09:00:50Z")
I will read the contribution guidelines, and then open a draft MR…
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### Author:  [@CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/CsatiZoltan)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-the-display-time-of-the-pop-up-box-when-hovering-points/17440/6 "2026-02-13T10:20:47Z")
@mwestphal According to the Issue template, a new Feature Request category must be opened on Discourse. Could you please move this topic into that category (I don’t have the permission to make this modification)?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 10:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-the-display-time-of-the-pop-up-box-when-hovering-points/17440/7 "2026-02-13T10:27:40Z")
done
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### Author:  [@CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/CsatiZoltan)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-the-display-time-of-the-pop-up-box-when-hovering-points/17440/8 "2026-02-13T13:41:15Z")
Issue created: [#23210](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/23210)