Tool-tip not disappearing

[StreakyCobra]

With the last version, freshly taken from MELPA (20151109.1056), the tool-tip take ages to disappear. It get updated quickly once on a new error (position and text), but even switching to another windows (like firefox) or changing the workspace (in i3) don't close it.

This issue was confirmed by @TheBB, so it shouldn't be config-specific.

[zeroDivisible]

Just to add to the above: after setting

(setq
  flycheck-pos-tip-timeout 10)

tool-tip will disappear after 10 seconds.

However, even with the above, it will still not disappear:

• after Emacs loses focus
• after moving a cursor outside of the highlighted part of the code.

[synic]

Yeah, this is really annoying. Going to have to remove this package until it's fixed, because the tooltip popup stays in the way of my code.

[swsnr]

@StreakyCobra I've turned this library into a global minor mode (flycheck-pos-tip-mode), which adds a hook to hide the tooltip after the next command. Also, the tooltip automatically hides after five seconds now.

Please update and try whether that's better.

[StreakyCobra]

I can confirm that the 5 seconds timer works – the 60 seconds before was also working, just a little bit too long :-) – but the tooltip gets closed only by the timer. I tried to:

• Change line
• Insert text
• Open a new window
• Change buffer
• Change the focus to firefox
• …

And it stays for the 5 seconds in any case.

Is there anything else I should do to make it work, as it's a global minor mode now? Maybe it's a spacemacs problem?

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I just updated my packages from melpa:

(define-package "flycheck-pos-tip" "20151111.131" "Flycheck errors display in tooltip" '((dash "2.12") (flycheck "0.18") (pos-tip "0.4.6")) :url "https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck-pos-tip" :keywords '("tools" "convenience"))

I'm sure it's the last version as your last change is included (f2459b4)

[swsnr]

@StreakyCobra Did you change your configuration to enable the new minor mode?

[StreakyCobra]

Sorry, I was assuming it was enabled by default, my bad. Indeed it works better, it escapes on actions within emacs, but not when changing the focus (i.e. changing to firefox, to a terminal, etc…)

If I am the only one encountering this problem, it may be something wrong on my side. I'm using i3-wm by the way.

[swsnr]

@StreakyCobra Does it matter that the tooltip stays when switching focus? I mean, if you switch away from Emacs, why would care for the error tooltip?

[StreakyCobra]

The problem is the tooltip stays in front of firefox, even if emacs is behind it.

It's why I am saying it could be related to my WM.

[joehillen]

I just reproduced @StreakyCobra's issue. I am also on i3. I'm worried this could be an issue with Emacs' tooltip implementation and not this plugin.

[swsnr]

@StreakyCobra Indeed, I can't reproduce that behaviour on OS X. Anyhow, I've added code to hide the tooltip when Emacs looses focus, but you'll need at least Emacs 24.4 for that to work, as the corresponding hook is not available on earlier versions.

[StreakyCobra]

👍 Many thanks, I'll try it once updated on melpa and give a feedback here.

[joehillen]

Is it supposed to take ~5 seconds for the tooltip to appear as well?

[swsnr]

@joehillen The tooltip appears after whatever you set flycheck-display-errors-delay to.

[joehillen]

flycheck-display-errors-delay is a variable defined in `flycheck.el'.
Its value is 0.9

Hmm, maybe it's a haskell-mode issue.

[StreakyCobra]

@lunaryorn It works now 👍 Thx for your help. On last detail: the focus-out-hook doesn't cancel the timer, so if we go on an error just before changing the focus, the the tip appears after the delay over the other window. But it's a minor annoyance :-)

[swsnr]

@StreakyCobra The latest master of Flycheck now cancels error display when Emacs looses focus, and re-starts it when Emacs gets the focus again. That should properly hide and show the tooltip upon focus changes. Again, focus hooks are 24.4 and upwards only, so you'll need to update Emacs if you're still on 24.3 or earlier.

[StreakyCobra]

👍 I'll try it once in melpa, thx

[StreakyCobra]

@lunaryorn It works perfectly now! Many thanks.

[duianto]

This issue seems to have reappeared.

The tooltip remains visible when switching to another application on top of Emacs.

NixOS

• Emacs

• Switched (Alt + Tab) to Firefox

flycheck-pos-tip-20200516.1600
GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.21)
NixOS 20.03

Windows

• Emacs

• Switched (Alt + Tab) to Chrome

flycheck-pos-tip-20200516.1600
GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2019-08-29
Windows 1903