Tooltip is sometime broken

[jeremy447]

Hello,

The tooltip is sometime broken. Maybe it's related to this chromium issue ?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=442111

• VSCode Version: 1.10.2
• OS Version: Fedora 25

Thanks !

[bpasero]

Yeah could be.

[jeremy447]

Some other way the tooltip is broken

[bpasero]

@Paviluf do you still see this in 1.12?

[jeremy447]

It still happening. I think that will happen until the bug is fixed in Chromium
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=442111

[ghost]

Have you tried that mesa patch, just in case? If you try, remember to set LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 before starting your program, else patch has no effect with dri3.

[jeremy447]

I didn't tried that patch and I won't be able to do so due to lack of time.
The fix could come from mesa too indeed
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90264

[falaca]

If you guys are looking for a workaround, you could use LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 to disable hardware acceleration. Not an ideal solution, but might not be too bad for a tool like this which isn't really graphics-heavy.

[jeremy447]

It seem that will be "fixed" soon in chromium. They will disable compositing for tooltips on Linux.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=442111

[ghost]

they say:

This CL is to fix the elusive bug 442111, which only occurs on intel
hardware.

that is not true, happens on AMD hardware too; however they seem to be disabling it on both anyway, if I'm reading this right: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/1721ffa7da2ce55c0c4fdb8bd363eafbe71c23d6%5E%21/

[jeremy447]

Fixed in Chromium 62.

[RuBAN-GT]

I have this bug with VSCode 1.20.1 and ArchLinux with Gnome 3.26.2.

[bpasero]

Closing this issue given that we plan to release VSCode stable early February with Electron 3.x. If you want to benefit from the fix already, consider to use our insiders version that already contains the fix: https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/