Xfce-panel doesn't show button hints

Xfce-panel doesn't show hints when placed horizontally at the bottom of the screen with option "Automatically hide panel" set to "Never".

By hints I mean the text that should appear above the buttons and other panel elements when you hover mouse cursor over them.

I use xfce4-panel 4.18.1-1 from Debian Testing.

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Are tooltips enabled in tasklist settings? If it's not limited to the tasklist it could be a duplicate of #303 (closed).

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The bug is connected to the option "Automatically hide panel" set to "Never".

When it's set to "Intellectually" or "Always" the tooltips appear just fine.

And it's not a duplicate of #303 (closed), because changing panel size to 45 pixels didn't help.

I think it is, see #303 (comment 49106) (this option is now "keep panel above windows", and should have the same effect for you as autohide).

I can confirm that enabling option "Keep panel above windows" fixes the issue.

Thanks.

Enabling "Keep panel above windows" makes windows exposed behind the panel when I maximize them. That's not the behaviour I expect. How to fix the issue without enabling this option?

The answer is in the link already given:

• Either patch GTK: #303 (comment 49099)
• Or use the workaround combining this option and workspace margins: #203 (comment 38435)

Thank you for reply! I was like really surprised that a simple one-line fix is hanging around gtk+ repository for about 2 years already. Just a shame...

I can confirm that patching GTK with the link you provided fixes the issue. Thanks!

marked this issue as a duplicate of #303 (closed)

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marked this issue as related to #303 (closed)

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