On the Gnome desktop, whenever the cursor pauses for more than a second ever a menu item or pushbutton, a small window containing descriptive or help text opens near the cursor. For example, when the cursor is pointing at the "Desktop" menu item in the upper panel of the screen, the text which appears is: "Change desktop appearance and behaviour, get help, or log out."
Is it possible to turn off this "neat-but-flawed" feature? I constantly am leaving the cursor at the bottom of the screen after switching windows, and then the text window opens on top of the XEmacs minibuffer, so that I must reach again for the rodent and move it somewhere upscreen -- which is maddening. I say that the feature is flawed, because once the text window appears, it remains on the screen indefinitely, until the rodent is moved. If the text window remained on the screen only a second at most, then it would be tolerable. Better yet, let the text window be activated at the command of the user, by a press of a button on the rodent. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
