Re: Tooltips problem on Gnome 3

[Germán Arias]

I test with IceWM (that comes with default OpenSUSE installation) and
the same problem. Not sure if this is something specific with my
installation or not (I will try later with WindowMaker). But I notice
something weird. When a tooltip should be displayed, a new window tab
is displayed at taskbar. See the red circle at attached screenshot. But
a tooltip should not display a new entry in the taskbar. Other ting: if
I wait about a half minute, the tooltip is displayed.

Now a remember that when I use Xfce, sometimes when I navigate an app
menu, a window tab is displayed at taskbar, but this disappear
immediately.

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. 

Germán

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.
> 
> 
> > parameters are: op = 0, otherwin = -1. I tried changing the level
> > value
> 
> The value -1 for other win means above all windows, not just any
> specific ones even above the key and main window.
> This should work, but it isn’t the best we could do. We could provide
> the window of the view the tool tip belongs to as reference. That way
> we would get similar results as your change on the lowest level
> achieved. 
> For this we need to change line 695 in GSToolTip.m to look somewhat
> like this:
> 
>   [window  orderWindow: NSWindowAbove relativeTo: [[view window]
> windowNumber]];
> 
> 
> > to other values, like 0, 2, 4, 6, ... but don't solve the problem.
> > However if I change the line 2996 to:
> > 
> > else if ( (otherWin == 0 && op == NSWindowAbove) || level == 101 )
> > 
> > The problem is solved. Although I don't have idea why.
> 
> I am surprised that this worked as it results in the tool tip being
> placed below the key window.
> 
>

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