Using: Ubuntu-Lucid with Gnome.

The Workspace Switcher displays pop-up messages (or should I call them 'tips'), EG. 'Current workspace: Desk 1' and 'Click to start dragging app name'. I find these tips/pop-up messages annoying and find that they sometimes persist even when the mouse pointer has left their area. Can they be turned off anywhere? I've hunted around but can't find how to turn them off.

Thanks everyone.

In my opinion, Ubuntu is setup to seduce Windows users into a promising adventure... The penalty is, that Ubuntu needs to give pentiti the feeling that they are still 'home' on TOS (The Other System).

If you want to get rid of this kind of things, switch over to a real Linux. Slackware, Slax, Knoppix, Debian, DSL, Fedora, red Hat, etc.

I used to run SuSE on a ew compuers but I ditched it. It was too much work turning off all the appetizers that were just there to please the MS pentiti (AFAIK pentiti is italian for (maffia) defector).

LOL.

Short of changing my OS, is there a solution to this?

I don't know how to get rid of the tooltips just for the workspace switcher but I do know how to get rid of them for all panel items including the workspace switcher. Press Alt-F2 and a box will pop up. Type in gconf-editor and the Gconf Editor application will launch. In that navigate to /apps/panel/global in the left pane. Look at the options in the right pane and you'll see one called tooltips_enabled. Untick it. The tooltips are gone.

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Thanks for the suggestion arizonagroovejet. Unfortunately that does not stop the Workspace Switcher displaying the pop-up messages.

It is possible there is a bug in Ubuntu-Lucid as I've noticed that the Workspace Switcher always says "Current workspace: Desk 1" regardless of which of the 3 workspaces I have set is currently being used.

Any other ideas from anyone would be appreciated.

Thanks again.

It looks like people were griping about this for some time but a chap named Johan Tavelin made a fix and Renzo Bagnati has provided a patched package on his PPA. See comment #59 in the Launchpad bug report below.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s....0/+bug/356702

The only binary package you need to install is libgtk2.0-0 so if you don't want to subscribe to the PPA you can just grab the DEB for your architecture and install that. Hopefully a fix will appear in the official version soon.

TIM