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Emacs gtk system tooltips don't obey gtk theme

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>, 32298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32298: 26.1.50; Emacs gtk system tooltips are not shown as tooltips
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 09:52:36 +0200

> The weird thing is that emacs gtk tooltips haven't any tooltip related
> property set. I'm not sure whether this is because of the way I've
> called xprop and xwininfo on them (again, details in [1]) or what, but
> the problem is that the window manager is trying to manage them since it
> can't indentify them as tooltips and, so, they're not themed as the gtk
> theme specifies for tooltips.

In xg_prepare_tooltip after

  gwin = gtk_widget_get_window (GTK_WIDGET (x->ttip_window));

insert the line

  gdk_window_set_override_redirect (gwin, TRUE);

but I doubt this would help much making GTK tooltips look as wanted
by a specific theme.

martin

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