Xubuntu 14.04 Turnoff Balloon notifications

[matt103]

Any suggestions how to turn of the balloon notifcations or popup ballons throughout Xubuntu 14.04. It does seem quite silly to have a large ballon tip that says eg "rubbish bin" when you hover over the rubbish bin. Thks

[matt103]

AND for the future mentally challenged folk amongst us..the answer is: Right click on your desktop - desktop settings - icons tab - disable "show icon tooltips"
SO where do I collect my prize..

[kc1di]

One way is to run the following in a terminal.

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service.disabled

just copy and past it to avoid typos.
To reverse it type

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service.disabled /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service

[kc1di]

Glad you found it

[bapoumba]

AND for the future mentally challenged folk amongst us..the answer is: Right click on your desktop - desktop settings - icons tab - disable "show icon tooltips"
SO where do I collect my prize..

You won the prize indeed : you can now go to Thread Tools, and mark your thread as solved, congrats

(and in the future, even if I understand it was a light or funny remark, please bear in mind that your first sentence can make some people uneasy. I'm sure my very nice neighbors would feel uncomfortable or sad reading this, they have a kid, you know..).

[vasa1]

If you don't want to turn off the icon tooltip altogether but just make it less huge, look for:

XfdesktopIconView::tooltip-size = 32

in your theme's gtkrc and change the value there.

[vasa1]

[QUOTE=kc1di;13019519]One way is to run the following in a terminal.
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What you describe is a way to turn off the notifications. As it turns out, OP wanted to prevent tooltips from appearing on the Xfce desktop.

[matt103]

You won the prize indeed : you can now go to Thread Tools, and mark your thread as solved, congrats

(and in the future, even if I understand it was a light or funny remark, please bear in mind that your first sentence can make some people uneasy. I'm sure my very nice neighbors would feel uncomfortable or sad reading this, they have a kid, you know..).

Thank you for the advice regarding closing the thread, I will do this now.
Your additional politically corrective comments draw unnecessary attention to obvious humour.