Getting rid of 'balloons'

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/20/2010 06:50 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:22:25 +1000
> Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I am getting most annoyed by having balloons come up everytime I put
>> the cursor over an icon. I KNOW what the icon is about when I put the
>> cursor on it and I don't want the darn balloon not only popping up
>> but also obscuring the text or whatever under it. I mean a balloon
>> even comes up "telling" me to login as<name>  - I know who I am!
>>
>> Is there any way to switch off these 'balloons'?
>>
>> (Using Ubuntu Lucid Beta 2.)
>>
>> BC
>>
>>      
> Good luck!  I've been trying to get rid of them for ages.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
>    
         I am on 10.04 and I managed to kill the balloons but not sure 
what I did. I went through all the preference pages getting back to a 
brown background. If I had balloons I would start there, and try to 
learn what that "feature" is really called.

73 Karl


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