Screensaver does not activate while mouse pointer on tooltip

[Fred]

When the mouse pointer is activating a tooltip, the screensaver never comes on (and the monitor doesn't shutdown if you have it configured).

It happens a lot when my daughter is on the computer and doesn't pay attention to where the mouse is when she leaves.

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5492/

[komputes (komputes)]

Can you give me an example of a tooltip that would have this effect. I tested this on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with gnome-screensaver 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 and even with my cursor on "Applications" (Tooltip: Browse and run installed applications) the screensaver still came on after being inactive.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Patrik Nilsson (nipatriknilsson)]

When the mouse pointer is over a toolbar and a tool tip is shown all the time, such as in Pan News reader, and the screen saver dims the screen the tool tip is hidden for a short while and then shown again. At this point the screen saver is always interrupted and still shows the screen. This happens repeatedly.

Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 00:28:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu v9.04

[Flávio Etrusco (etrusco)]

Any gtk hint seems to trigger the bug. For example, try the gnome-panel. Tested is on Lucid.

[Flávio Etrusco (etrusco)]

It also prevents the monitor from blanking. Not cool.

[Flávio Etrusco (etrusco)]

I'm not so sure this is the same bug, because in this case there's not even a fade out. Or maybe the other bug has changed since the original post. In this case, the hint problem should be mentioned on the other bug (although it all suggests it's a GTK_WINDOW_POPUP window style problem anyway).

[Flávio Etrusco (etrusco)]

Reading the upstream bug, it doesn't seem to be the same bug really. Unless gtk implementation of hints grabs the mouse, which doesn't seem to be very necessary to say the least...

[Ryan Grieve (thegrieve)]

Flavio, hints need to know the location of the mouse to determine when to show and hide. Seems reasonable that they should grab the mouse.

Ryan

[Flávio Etrusco (etrusco)]

Well, if the Hint objects manage themselves, yes. But in my vague memory gtk Hints didn't work like this (nor did on any widgetset I've seem).

[Flávio Etrusco (etrusco)]

Another thing that suggests this is not a duplicate: I can suspend and/or lock the screen (with Ctrl+Alt+L) while showing the hint.

[Robert Lange (rcl24)]

I have spent the evening running down Gnome Screensaver bugs. [un]Fortunately, I cannot reproduce this particular bug on a fresh install of 10.04. I can point to things that show a tooltip, such as the panel menu, and after the timeout, the tooltip disappears and the screen is blanked/locked.

[Robert Lange (rcl24)]

Changed to invalid. I have tried on a fresh install of 10.04 pointing to all of the tooltips I know of, and I simply cannot trigger this bug.