Getting rid of 'balloons'
Basil Chupin
blchupin at iinet.net.au
Tue Apr 20 13:30:11 UTC 2010
On 20/04/10 22:52, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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
>
Well, when you have it figured out let us all know.
BC
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