Re: Empty tooltips under X

[Tassilo Horn]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

>>> With current master/trunk tooltips under X are broken here.  I get a
>>> box with correct borders/background and correct dimensions but without
>>> text.  Can anyone see that?
>>
>> I'm on
>>
>> ,----[ C-h v emacs-repository-version RET ]
>> | emacs-repository-version is a variable defined in ‘version.el’.
>> | Its value is "9db11fa2d635935318364370f31821023c2501b9"
>> |
>> | Documentation:
>> | String giving the repository revision from which this Emacs was built.
>> | Value is nil if Emacs was not built from a repository checkout,
>> | or if we could not determine the revision.
>> `----
>>
>> and (tooltip-show "This is a test tooltip") shows the tip correctly.
>> Emacs is built with GTK3 support.
>
> Indeed, GTK+ tooltip support still works.  What happens when you set
> ‘x-gtk-use-system-tooltips’ to nil?

The text is still shown.  Because the tooltips looks identical to the
GTK version, I also stepped thru `x-show-tip' in order to validate we're
really using Emacs' own tooltip code.

Bye,
Tassilo