[openbox] Sticky hover messages

Mikael Magnusson mikachu at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 10:53:47 EST 2023


On 2/9/23, Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is related to OB but maybe someone can help me out.
>
> When I'm in Firefox, many items on the page show "hover" messages. For
> example moveing over an image often shows the title of the image.
>
> When such a hover message is shown, and I switch to another window or
> workspace using a hot key, the hover message sticks on the screen and I
> cannot get rid if of until I go back to the original window that initiated
> it.
>
> This is very annoying.
>
> Are more users seeing this? Is there anything I can do to prevent this?

This is a bug in firefox, those windows are "override redirect" which
means openbox does absolutely nothing with them.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


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