Getting rid of 'balloons'

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/20/2010 12:52 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:22:45 -0600
> Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On 04/20/2010 12:16 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>      
>>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:04:45 -0600
>>> Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>>    Hi, no /apps/ in 10.04 so what version of Ubuntu are you7 using?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> 9.10, the Karmic Koala, although I don't understand your reference
>>> to, "no apps in 10.04."  Doesn't an OS need apps (applications,
>>> packages) in order to /do/ anything?
>>>
>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>>>
>>>        
>>       Perhaps it is your shorthand. Does /apps/ mean Applications?  I
>> must be pretty dense because I was looking for a directory /apps/.
>>
>>       My 10.04 has no directory /apps/ that I can find. I even tried
>> /usr/apps/
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>      
> I think I spy the problem you are having.  Oliver posted about
> gconf-editor and how to disable tooltips from there:
> -----------
> hit alt+f2, run gconf-editor
     In 10.04 alt-f2 gets nothing. Alt delay f2 gets a panel to change 
the name of things on the Desktop.



> , navigate
> to /apps/panel/global/tooltips_enabled .... uncheck the box ...
> does that suffice ?
>
>    
     It doesn't because alt-f2 doesn't work.


73 Karl



> ciao
> oli
> ----------
> and in doing so referred to, "/apps/panel/global/tooltips_enabled"
>
> It isn't a part of the file system, but a part of gconf-editor.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
>    


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