RE: how to disable a "pop-up help text" in Gnome?

["Lewis, James M." <Jim.Lewis@alcoa.com>]

> You know that little box that automatically pops up and 
> displays the text:
> 
> Button1-Move move-window-interactively
> Button1-Off2 toggle-window-shaded 
> Button2 ..
> Button2 ..
> (... etc, etc)
> 
> that appears when you position the pointer on the 
> bar-above-the-menu-bar? ( I dont know what to call that bar, 
> or even if it has a common name)
>  
> I'm trying to get rid of the pop-up box by changing Gnome 
> Control Panel settings. But I cant seem to find the setting. 
> any ideas?

They are called tooltips.  I found 2 places to enable/disable them.
control panel->desktop->panel->Miscellaneous
and
control panel->sawfish window manager->miscellaneous->tooltips

hth
jim


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