<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Lee Gold <<a href="mailto:leegold@operamail.com">leegold@operamail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, This seems new in 9 and 10. I get these pop-ups, like updates available, you are connected, or a volume slider. Sometimes they have an logo that's an "i" - I guess meaning info. They are relatively small and appear in the upper right corner of my desktop. IMO they get in my way. How do i turn these notices/reminder off? Thanks. Lee G. </blockquote></div> Hi Lee, These are provided by notify-osd, which you can uninstall. You might also want to check the autostarted applications for e.g. the update notifier which you can then disable to speed up Xubuntu. Note that if you uninstall notify-osd, you will get no notifications at all, from any application that uses libnotify. Best, -- Vincent