Re: tooltips not appearing

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Saturday 11 of August 2012 20:20:49 Robin Becker wrote:
> I've asked this question on a couple of Arch lists, but have no useful
> answer.
> 
> I have two Arch linux systems running identical software. On one
> system nm-applet shows tool tips; on the other it does not.
> Since the nowshow machine is a hd copy from the show machine I am
> beginning to believe the issue is actually related to hardware.
> 
> The two machines are msi wind u100s. I am running slim with openbox
> and tint2 as the toolbar; the gtk version is 3.4.4, NetworkManager
> 0.9.4.0.
> 
> The show machine has a synaptics touch pad & intel 5300 wifi.
> The noshow machine has sentelic touch pad and intel 4965 wifi.
> 
> There may be other hardware differences, but those are the ones I know
> about.
> 
> I used xev to inspect the events that are being sent to the nm-applet
> child window. Both systems seem to be getting entry events.
> An instrumented version of the gtk3 lib indicates that
> gtk_tooltip_show_tooltip is called on the show system, but not on the
> noshow system.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas on what's wrong or how to discover more?

Hmm..., do you see tooltips on other GTK applications on the problematic 
machine?

Jirka