Getting rid of 'balloons'

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/20/2010 02:31 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:48:00 -0600
> Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> So it appears my 10.04 does not contain /.gconf/apps/panel/global.
>>
>>
>> 73 karl
>>      
> Try this:
> Open a terminal
> In that terminal type, "gconf-editor" (without the quotation marks,
> please).
> Once it opens, navigate to (choose) the drop-down arrow by, "apps," on
> the left side.  Scroll down to, "panel."
> Use the drop-down arrow here and locate, "global."
>    
         This was new to me but it does work. I located Global.


> Scroll on the /right/ side until you find, "tooltips_enabled."
> Un-check the box to disable tooltips.
>    
     I discovered it was set to True. I verified I was getting balloons 
and then changed it to False and the balloons stopped. So this is what 
you should use to control balloons on Lucid 10.04 and it works!


73 Karl




>
> This is what Oliver was talking about, not the file system.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
>    


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