I am seeing this too. The tooltip for subsequent pulldown selections displays at the location of the first tooltip you evoke. I tried the <Appearance> option Nicolo suggested and it works as he says.
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- [gutsy] tooltips not pleced near the source in the menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs