On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:09:21 -0500, Murari via arch-general wrote:
Hi all,
For some months now, the icons in my notification area haven't been showing me tooltips. I don't quite know when this started, but I do remember that this was working before. I get tooltips for all my launchers in the panel, but neither the Power Manager system tray icon nor the NetworkManager applet show any tooltips on mouseover. FWIW, ~/.gtkrc-2.0 has 'gtk-enable-tooltips=1'.
Both, xfce4-panel as well as xfce4-power-manager depends on libxfce4ui and libxfce4ui depends on gtk2 and gtk3, so you might need to configure .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, too. FWIW I'm using lxpanel and fbpanel, both depend on gtk2 only. I neither have a tooltip setting in my .gtkrc-2.0, nor in the .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, but tooltips are shown by the panel. My guess is that Xfce4 is a gtk2/gtk3 hybrid, still migrating from one to the other, but I might be mistaken.