Bug 1644128

Summary: [KDE][Xfce] Libreoffice tooltips not displaying/flickering
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vinu Moses <vinu>
Component: gtk3Assignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 29CC: bgz, caolanm, cosimo.cecchi, dtardon, erack, mclasen, mike, prd-fedora, rdieter, richard.shadbolt, sbergman, trevor
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Screenshot of Libreoffice writer with cursor on an icon and no tooltip displayed
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Description Vinu Moses 2018-10-30 05:22:04 UTC
Created attachment 1498812 [details]
Screenshot of Libreoffice writer with cursor on an icon and no tooltip displayed

Description of problem:
Libreoffice tooltips are not displaying when the mouse cursor is placed over any icon on the toolbar.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Version: 6.1.2.1
Build ID: 6.1.2.1-1.fc29
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-US (en_IN.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded

How reproducible:
Enable Libreoffice tooltips from Tools > Options > General > Help > Extended tips. Restart Libreoffice. When the mouse cursor is placed over any icon on the toolbar, the icon just flickers without display of the associated tooltip.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable extended tips in Help (in settings)
2. Place mouse cursor over any icon in the Libreoffice Writer/Calc/Impress toolbar
3. 

Actual results:
The icon flickers after a second but no tooltip is displayed.

Expected results:
The tooltip for the icon should display as a pop-up adjacent the cursor

Additional info:
* Fedora 29 Server with additional groups "KDE Plasma Workspaces" and "Libreoffice" installed. All updates applied to date.
* Information from glxinfo:
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center (0x8086)
    Device: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (Kaby Lake GT2)  (0x5916)
    Version: 18.2.2
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 3072MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.5
    Max compat profile version: 3.0
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (Kaby Lake GT2) 
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.2.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

Comment 1 Caolan McNamara 2018-10-30 09:13:49 UTC
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120764 is not exactly the same thing, but I suspect has the same underlying problem wrt native gtk tooltip interactions

Comment 2 Caolan McNamara 2018-10-30 09:31:37 UTC
I suspect this won't be enough, but lets try that change first

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-10-31 14:03:52 UTC
libreoffice-6.1.2.1-2.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-31404b63f0

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2018-11-01 15:40:33 UTC
libreoffice-6.1.2.1-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-31404b63f0

Comment 5 Vinu Moses 2018-11-02 00:52:07 UTC
This update does not solve the aforesaid issue. Tooltips are still not displayed.

Libreoffice version details: (Libreoffice Help)
Version: 6.1.2.1
Build ID: 6.1.2.1-2.fc29
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: en-GB (en_IN.UTF-8); Calc: threaded

GTK details: (rpm -qa | grep gtk)
gtk2-2.24.32-3.fc29.i686
ibus-gtk2-1.5.19-4.fc29.x86_64
gtk2-2.24.32-3.fc29.x86_64
pygtk2-2.24.0-23.fc29.x86_64
usermode-gtk-1.112-3.fc29.x86_64
spice-gtk3-0.35-3.fc29.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk-1.14.4-1.fc29.x86_64
gtk-vnc2-0.9.0-2.fc29.x86_64
webkit2gtk3-jsc-2.22.2-2.fc29.x86_64
qemu-ui-gtk-3.0.0-1.fc29.x86_64
adwaita-gtk2-theme-3.28-2.fc29.x86_64
adwaita-gtk2-theme-3.28-2.fc29.i686
libreoffice-gtk2-6.1.2.1-2.fc29.x86_64
libreport-gtk-2.9.6-1.fc29.x86_64
gtkmm24-2.24.5-6.fc29.x86_64
ibus-gtk3-1.5.19-4.fc29.x86_64
webkit2gtk3-2.22.2-2.fc29.x86_64
compat-wxGTK3-gtk2-3.0.4-4.fc29.x86_64
libcanberra-gtk3-0.30-17.fc29.x86_64
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-1.0.2-1.fc29.x86_64
kde-gtk-config-5.13.5-1.fc29.x86_64
libreoffice-gtk3-6.1.2.1-2.fc29.x86_64
gtk-update-icon-cache-3.24.1-1.fc29.x86_64
unison240-gtk-2.40.128-12.fc29.x86_64
gtk3-3.24.1-1.fc29.x86_64
gtkmm30-3.22.2-3.fc29.x86_64
pygtk2-libglade-2.24.0-23.fc29.x86_64
webkit2gtk3-plugin-process-gtk2-2.22.2-2.fc29.x86_64

Comment 6 Caolan McNamara 2018-11-02 09:00:05 UTC
oh well

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2018-11-04 06:51:37 UTC
libreoffice-6.1.2.1-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Caolan McNamara 2018-11-04 16:28:06 UTC
autoclose not appropriate in this case, reopening

Comment 9 Caolan McNamara 2018-11-05 12:06:32 UTC
Created attachment 1501811 [details]
default f29 install

works fine for me in default gnome under wayland session

Comment 10 Caolan McNamara 2018-11-05 12:08:39 UTC
I presume libreoffice-help-en is installed ?

Comment 11 Stephan Bergmann 2018-11-05 13:13:26 UTC
(In reply to Caolan McNamara from comment #10)
> I presume libreoffice-help-en is installed ?

and even if not, I think the content of the non-extended tooltips would be displayed instead

Comment 12 Vinu Moses 2018-11-05 17:12:15 UTC
(In reply to Caolan McNamara from comment #10)
> I presume libreoffice-help-en is installed ?

Yes, it's installed.

Comment 13 Vinu Moses 2018-11-05 17:45:12 UTC
(In reply to Caolan McNamara from comment #9)
> Created attachment 1501811 [details]
> default f29 install
> 
> works fine for me in default gnome under wayland session

I installed Fedora 29 server on a VM and then installed both KDE and Gnome packages (using group install). When I boot into Gnome, the tooltips are displayed. But when I logout and boot into KDE, the tooltips are not displayed.

Looks like a KDE specific problem.

Comment 14 Kevin Kofler 2018-11-08 02:17:10 UTC
You can try installing libreoffice-kde4 and using that, chances are it will work better under Plasma than the GTK+ stuff.

Comment 15 Vinu Moses 2018-11-08 09:12:42 UTC
(In reply to Kevin Kofler from comment #14)
> You can try installing libreoffice-kde4 and using that, chances are it will
> work better under Plasma than the GTK+ stuff.

This worked. 

Installed libreoffice-kde4-1:6.1.2.1-2.fc29.x86_64 and the tooltips started working!. Thank you!

Comment 16 Caolan McNamara 2018-11-12 10:11:29 UTC
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1371 seems to be this problem

Comment 17 Caolan McNamara 2018-12-04 10:26:41 UTC
*** Bug 1655422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18 Trevor Cordes 2018-12-08 06:09:36 UTC
Almost certainly the same bug as bz 1645829 and bz 1647105.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1371  does sound like the culprit indeed.

bz 1645829 seems to be where the discussion is liveliest.

Comment 19 Shadders 2019-10-09 11:22:36 UTC
Hi,
This has not been resolved, but the solution or workaround is the following :

1. Create the settings.ini file as follows :
vi ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

2. Add the lines :
[Settings]
gtk-cursor-theme-size = 16

3. Save the file. 

This allows for the tooltips to function. I am using v6.1.6.3 Libreoffice. 

Regards,
Shadders.

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