On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:48 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Actually, it looks like the numbers disappear when the mouse is on > parts of the mode line devoid of any glyphs. It happens actually when I move the mouse from one glyph to another. Now it is not always repeatable to the point that this always happens if I move the mouse from glyph X to glyph Y. But I can reproduce by doing this: "frantically keep on moving the mouse across all the minor mode lighters (which I have modified to be a single unicode char each)". Kaushal, did you actually click on those empty parts, or just having the > mouse hover > over them causes the numbers to disappear. > No, just hover. In that GIF, you will see a small ripple appear around the mouse pointer when I click.. you see that when I click anywhere in the buffer to restore the line numbers. > And does the problem go away if you disable GTK tooltips in favor of > the native tooltips? > Yes! I believe the problem goes away if I set x-gtk-use-system-tooltips to nil. -- Kaushal Modi