Open Bug 1863710 Opened 1 year ago Updated 1 year ago

tooltips automatically disappear and hover status becomes false when the mouse pointer becomes invisible, e.g. with unclutter

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget: Gtk
Version:
Firefox 119
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: vincent-moz, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open a page with a tooltip, as provided by the title attribute, e.g. data:text/html,<p title="tooltip">foo.
  2. Put the mouse pointer over the text, e.g. "foo" with this example.
  3. Wait for a few seconds.

Actual results:

Immediately after step 2, a tooltip appears. But after a few seconds, it automatically disappears.

Expected results:

The tooltip should remain visible.

Note: in case this matters, my window manager is FVWM.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Gtk
Product: Firefox → Core
Priority: -- → P3
Summary: tooltips automatically disappear after a few seconds → [FVWM] tooltips automatically disappear after a few seconds

With mozregression, 2022-01-08 was bad already, and previous versions crash. But I don't remember noticing the issue several weeks ago. Here, this is a new machine, mostly Debian/stable, while my old machines have Debian/unstable. I plan to fully upgrade this new machine to Debian/unstable soon, so that I could compare.

BTW, I've also noticed that the mouse pointer also automatically disappears after a few seconds. This is global, thus unrelated to Firefox (and there is no such behavior on my other machines). But in Firefox, the mouse pointer disappears at the same time as the tooltip, so that this may be the cause of the bug in Firefox.

This may be the same issue as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808425 (which I reported in 2015) in Debian's Firefox.

I've noticed that unclutter was installed and running (it seems that Debian now installs it by default!), and killing it makes the issue disappear.

I'm changing the title to "tooltips automatically disappear and hover status becomes false when the mouse pointer becomes invisible, e.g. with unclutter" since

  • this is probably not related to FVWM, as I could see that the cause was unclutter;
  • the "after a few seconds" exactly corresponds to the time the mouse pointer becomes invisible (due to unclutter);
  • this also affects the hover status, thus CSS menus, such as the one at https://www.vinc17.net/cijml/index.fr.html (example for Debian bug 808425).
Summary: [FVWM] tooltips automatically disappear after a few seconds → tooltips automatically disappear and hover status becomes false when the mouse pointer becomes invisible, e.g. with unclutter
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