Re: Tooltips problem on Gnome 3

[Germán Arias]

I run the application with "--GNU-Debug=Frame" and I notice a
difference when the tooltip is displayed and when this don't happen.
When the tooltip is displayed the terminal show messages like:

XW2OW ...
Window 477383, offsets ........

But when the tooltip is not displayed the message is:

XW2OW ...

and after a half minute (more or less) the terminal show the message
"Window 83884, offsets ..." and then the tooltip is displayed.

Germán


El dom, 08-01-2017 a las 22:25 +0100, Fred Kiefer escribió:
> It definitely isn’t the architecture or the operation system. I am
> using OpenSuse (Factory) on AMD 64 as well.
> The issue here must be the interaction with the window manager. I am
> using Kein, the KDE window manager and things work alright.
> 
> 
> > Am 08.01.2017 um 07:12 schrieb Germán Arias <germanandre@gmx.es>:
> > 
> > OK, finally I tried with WindowMaker and the problem is still
> > present.
> > So, this is not a problem related with window managers. Maybe a
> > problem
> > with the architecture of my machine? The problem is present in my
> > laptop with an AMD 64 bits processor (OpenSUSE leap 42.1). But my
> > desktop PC, an old Intel machine of 32 bits, don have problems.
> > 
> > El mar, 20-12-2016 a las 19:55 -0600, Germán Arias escribió:
> > > El dom, 27-11-2016 a las 19:06 +0100, Fred Kiefer escribió:
> > > > > Am 27.11.2016 um 07:26 schrieb Germán Arias <
> > > > > germanandre@gmx.es>:
> > > > > The value of level in line 2989 at XGServerWindow.m is 101.
> > > > > The
> > > > 
> > > > That is the correct level, we use NSPopUpMenuWindowLevel = 101
> > > > for
> > > > tool tips.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > If I use NSMainMenuWindowLevel instead, this seems to solve the
> > > problem. Although I don't tested it in other desktops.
> 
> This really looks like we need to rework the code in setWindowLevel::
> to suit modern window managers. I think, I reworked this aboutn ten
> years ago for the last time. 
> 
> 
> As for this older statement:
> 
> > I try changing the options when level == NSPopUpMenuWindowLevel, at
> > line 3453 at XGServerWindow.m. But I notice all this code is not
> > execute, the "if" condition at line 3375 is skipped. 
> 
> This happens the second time the same window level gets set on a
> window, as there is nothing to do. If this already happens the first
> time we set the window level this could be the root of the problem.