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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.
Last edited by GlennsPref; 01-10-2006 at 08:02 AM.
Reason: Problem solved from outside LQ
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.
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.
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.......
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.
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.
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