Getting rid of 'balloons'

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:36:51 -0400
Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Mittwoch, den 21.04.2010, 00:23 +1000 schrieb Basil Chupin:
> > ...
> >> In Kubuntu (it uses KDE) you can do it but not in Ubuntu (which
> >> uses Gnome as you would know). There is no facility to turn off
> >> the balloons
> >> - at least I cannot find it in any of the options in the Control
> >> Centre :-( .
> >>
> > hit alt+f2, run gconf-editor, navigate
> > to /apps/panel/global/tooltips_enabled .... uncheck the box ...
> > does that suffice ?
> 
> That does it.
> 
Tom, are you running Lucid?  I surely hope so as I am getting tired of
these tooltips.  Tell me, "yes," and I upgrade tonight!

BTW,.. no, that's another thread.

Cybe R. Wizard
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