[openbox] Sticky hover messages

Mikael Magnusson mikachu at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 12:03:15 EST 2023


On 2/9/23, Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 16:53:47 +0100, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is a bug in firefox, those windows are "override redirect" which
>> means openbox does absolutely nothing with them.
>
> It could be this issue:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569439
>
> However, it mentions
>
> "This ensures that tooltips don't stick around if the window manager
> doesn't send correct leave-notify events."
>
> which seems to indicate that the WM may also be involved.

If they think the WM sends "leave-notify" events, that certainly
explains their extremely poor event handling.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


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