How do I Turn off Balloon notices in kde 3.5 <FIXED>
 

Hi, I'm currently using mandriva 2006 free, and kde 3.5, and there are these balloon tip notices, flashing up all over the place whenever I move the mouse across the task bar at the bottom of the screen.

These balloon type notices tell me the name of the program that is open on a particular pannel or desktop.

All that info is there anyway without these huge bubbles popping up.

Anyone know how to turn them off?
In mdy2005LE there was a switch in the desktop menu somewhere.

I think this is a bug in kde 3.5

Usually you just go into control center and turn off "tooltips", but this has not worked for me since I upgraded to 3.5

Very annoying...

Thanks, I'm still looking into it. And will post back any results.

I'm not too sure if 3.5 is the same as previous versions but for the tool tips you can go in to "Configure your desktop" and click on the "look and feel" and then on the "appearance" tab. If you uncheck "enable icon mouseover effects" it should turn them off. At least that's the way it works in 3.4. I don't run 3.5 but i would think something like this would'nt change too much.

Hope this helps

PDR60

The appearance tab is no longer there. It starts at the top with Background.

Maybe that's what is wrong. Something left out. Seems strange.

The balloons I'm talking about appear whenever I pass the mouse cursor over the bottom of the screen, which has the minimised windows,quick launch, task bar, clock and pager.

I looked through all of the .files in /root throughout today, (my eyes are blurry) and tried a few things, rebooting in between resetting the changes and looking for others to hack.

No worries, perhaps there will be a fix in the near future. We can only hope!

Thank you for your input, I felt like I must be going crazy or something, not being able to configure a simple thing like that.

I don't give up too easy.

Cheers, regards, Glenn

No problem....... sometimes the simplest things can be the most eluding. Like I said, I don't run 3.5 so I was just taking a shot in the dark. Hope you get this solved cause now I'm interested.......

PDR60

I still think this is a plain old bug, even though there is nothing relevant at bugs.kde.org

I'm in the control center right now, and if you select 'Desktop ==> Panels' then click on 'appearance' You see 'Show Tooltips'. I have unchecked it a long time ago, yet the tooltips remain.

Well, even though the tool tips are still here at home, I was cofiguring root before, They are much, much smaller.

So, it looks as if the large balloons I've been griping about are part of the theme I downloaded from superkaramba (not sure of the spelling).

So it's the theme I need to hack, not kde's desktop.

I'm very sorry to all of you, for tormenting you while you've searched for solutions,

I've made a huge oversite, and have blamed kde when it was not up to them.

hey found a fix!
 

A co user from the good people at www.atomicmpc.com.au
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/forums.asp?s=2&c=16&t=3619
forums has found a fix....

Linux_Inside_V2 to me (GlennsPref)
More options 8:38 pm (7 minutes ago)
hey found a fix!

add this part in your /home/bruno/.kde/share/config/kickerrc

[buttons]
EnableIconZoom=false
EnableTileBackground=false

I inserted it under [main pannel] and before [menus]

Balloon/box tips/notifications gone.

And it's reversible too

This didn't work for me.
 

This didn't work for me. In fact my .kde/share/config/kickerrc was already set like this.

I played with setting them to true, rebooting, setting them back to false, and still the tool tips will not go away.

There is another bug I have in my system. When installing backgrounds from "Login Manager", they don't show up. Here is the problem:
In the /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/backgroundrc

The entry is shown as:
Wallpaper=$HOME/.kde/share/wallpapers/QuakeLinux--0

Changing it to:
Wallpaper=/root/.kde/share/wallpapers/QuakeLinux--0

fixes the problem. When logging in, the environment variable $ROOT is not resolved.

Anybody else noticed this?