Re: [e-users] tooltip problems

On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 03:30:06PM -0500, Conrad Knight wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this, as it continues to
> cause problems. It seems to be an Enlightenment-only problem, as i've
> checked it doesn't happen with Gnome or Plasma.
> 
> As far as i can tell, what's happening is:
> - after a mouse-over/hover, a tooltip pops up.
> - E sees this as a new window, sets focus to the new window
> - the cursor changes to E's cursor
> - focus is lost from the underlying window, so the element that
> previously had a mouse-over event no longer does
> - tooltip closes due to above
> - focus reverts to the original window
> - cursor changes back to what the application in that window
> previously had it set to.
> - depending on the application, and any cursor movement, this
> sometimes triggers the first point again, starting a loop.

I've never seen anything like this and regularly use GTK apps under E.  I just
checked it works on 0.25.4 with GTK client-side decorations and without.  If
0.25.4 fixes it, git bisect will help you find how it was introduced.

Ross