Icon tooltip stays in top-left corner of desktop

[jebeld17]

Often times when I hover over the Synctrayzor icon in the Windows System Tray, the balloon message stating what program it is that I'm hovering over will pop up in the upper left-hand corner of the screen and stick there, regardless if I move my mouse, open Synctrayzor, or interact with the tray icon in any way, shape or form.

The only way I found to fix this is to exit out of Synctrayzor completely and re-open the program.
Has anyone else run into this?

OS: Windows 10 Home x64, v1703

Synctrayzor: v1.1.16

• SHA256: E5E7C4446B60F066507CDB6231918983BB24FA2F49C3B201BCB864B3219A501C

Syncthing: v0.14.37-rc.3

• SHA256: 08D544CCEF3F9CE4C6456882DC409754414497D49FE17AFA6835851850C9F0C4

[canton7]

I'm afraid I've never seen it. I'll leave this open in case anyone else has come across it.

[jebeld17]

I've run across this on all Windows 10 x64 machines running Version 1703, whether it's on Home or Pro.

[canton7]

Weird. The notify icon is supplied by an external library which doesn't have an issue tracker, so there's probably a limited amount I can do about this...

[jebeld17]

Maybe we can either change the libraries or set a fast refresh cycle for the libraries? (Basically have the tray icon itself shut down for a brief half-second every "x" amount of time)

[canton7]

No, this is the only notify icon library for WPF. There's no such thing as a refresh cycle for a notify icon.

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On 8 October 2017 09:00:54 BST, jebeld17 ***@***.***> wrote: Maybe we can either change the libraries *or* set a fast refresh cycle for the libraries? (Basically have the tray icon itself shut down for a brief half-second every "x" amount of time) -- You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #398 (comment)

[jebeld17]

Worth a shot to ask, at least :(

[msrv]

Same problem here! Windows 10 & Surface Pro. Tooltip stays in top left corner...which external library is used? maybe we can open the issue there...

[jebeld17]

Thank you @msrv

[canton7]

Project page is here: http://www.hardcodet.net/wpf-notifyicon . There is no issue tracker.

[jebeld17]

I sent the developer an email.

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On Jan 27, 2018 12:11 PM, "Antony Male" ***@***.***> wrote: Project page is here: http://www.hardcodet.net/wpf-notifyicon . There is no issue tracker. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#398 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJDWc2J2I6ghf4NAVh5M0uJ3MFafWLxoks5tO1jEgaJpZM4PBmpn> .

[Hard-Wired]

Confirmed on my Windows 10 1709 16299.248 / Synctrayzor: v1.1.18 / Syncthing: v0.14.44

I can sometimes get it to repeat if I futz with the tray icon or hover over the tray icon while locking the desktop.

[cosmicdan]

Confirmed here too. I only just started noticing this today. On my home PC and Notebook it happens to both, the Notebook being only a day old and a fairly-clean Windows 10 home install, as well as the portable version on my USB that I used just now on public Uni PC's.

EDIT: It sometimes appears near the tray too but gets stuck there.

[Hard-Wired]

I've found that if I hover the mouse over a different icon in the task tray, the stuck SyncTrayzor message disappears once the other icon's message is activated. Not a fix, but at least it gets rid of the message.

[vvvlad]

I can confirm that this is an issue with the hardcodet wpf library, as it have been observed with other applications using this library.
It was not updated since 2016, and the developer seems not to have been very active since then.
Very strange this is the only option available. :(

[ambrosegarnet]

I also have this issue intermittently. New to github, don't know what else to say??

[jebeld17]

Maybe we should invest in a fork of hardcodet wpf? Can't hurt to help out a few other projects if any of us get free time to contribute. :)

[DieKatzchen]

There's half a dozen pull requests that haven't been addressed. I'm not sure what the protocol is for taking over an open source project after the author has dropped off the earth is.

[lighthunt]

I have the same issue, quite annoying :(

There's half a dozen pull requests that haven't been addressed. I'm not sure what the protocol is for taking over an open source project after the author has dropped off the earth is.

I don't think you can just take over the project, but (if the license doesn't forbid), make your own fork, announce you are going to support an abandoned from there, ask people to make pull-requests to your fork etc....

[MyFault]

I've found that if I hover the mouse over a different icon in the task tray, the stuck SyncTrayzor message disappears once the other icon's message is activated. Not a fix, but at least it gets rid of the message.

Thank you! I was struggling with this issue, and absent an actual fix (which seems unlikely due to the 3rd party library), this workaround is extremely helpful!

[canton7]

Just an observation that wpf.notifyicon is now on github: https://github.com/hardcodet/wpf-notifyicon

[jebeld17]

👍

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On Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 5:58 AM Antony Male ***@***.***> wrote: Just an observation that wpf.notifyicon is now on github: https://github.com/hardcodet/wpf-notifyicon — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#398 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACINM463422ZCIZCSDZU273SXRKL7ANCNFSM4DYGNJTQ> .

[CoinAxe]

I'm having the same issue, is this fixed ?

[canton7]

Unless you can find an indication that an update to the wpf.notifyicon library has fixed it, nope!

[bitfiddlers]

FYI: Just observed same behaviour from NordVPN Tray app on my Surface Pro 5

[hifialan]

Easiest way to get rid of it for me is to right click the Syncthing tray icon and select "Restart Syncthing".

[50705]

I had the same issue with NordVPN and it has nothing to do with the SyncTrayzor.
If you run this on a system with a dedicated GPU consider the following actions:

1. Add the App and service executables to the "High Performance" mode of the Windows Settings>Display>Graphics Settings>Graphics Performance Preference
2. Properties the App and service executables must have the
   a. Properties>Compatibility>Disable Fullscreen Optimizations
   b. Change High DPI settings [v] Program DPI
   c. Override High DPI scaling behavior [v]
   d. Scaling performed by application
3. Stop and start the service and the problem must have disappeared.

[ggppjj]

Considering upstream doesn't seem to have progress on this, would it be possible to have a toggle to disable this tooltip as a mitigation? It's a minor frustration, and seems like it could be worked around this way for now harmlessly.

[Nova38]

I agree that that might be a good solution for the time being

[xgdgsc]

Has anyone tried using https://github.com/hardcodet/wpf-notifyicon latest code and test this issue? There' s no related issue open on the new repo. If still occurs, we should open one issue there.

[acomagu]

The sample apps in the repository of wpf-notifyicon don't seem to reproduce this issue.

However, I noticed the library seems to draw tooltips in its own way, without using the Windows native tooltip UI. I think that is causing problems and is a complexity that SyncTrazor does not need.

Native's tooltip UI looks more modern in Windows 11.

I think it would be nice to find a way to use Native's tooltip UI.

(Technical info: To show native tooltip, add NIF_SHOWTIP flag to Shell_NotifyIcon calling. Documentation)

Maybe this article could be helpful to write a simple wrapper.

[TheRealKamisama]

Same issue on Windows 11 22H2 2621.1555

[cartermnelson]

Same issue here as well on Windows 11 22H2 22621.1848 on multiple systems

[fhumayun]

Can confirm this is reproducible, and still annoying 😒,
OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621

[beyond9thousand]

has anyone figured this out? its pretty annoying

[Dragon-Mom]

Any fix? I'm still having this issue on Windows 11 Build 22631 and it is extraordinarily annoying

[Hollo1001]

Many apps I use have this issue, its super annoying.
I will just stop using them, when I don't 100% need them.

[xgdgsc]

I recommend using https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray which is actively maintained.

[yatimerkhanov]

I would greatly appreciate it if this could be addressed.
But I've found workaround - if I leave SyncTrayzor window opened there is no balloon message in upper left corner anymore.

[simon-nicalis]

There is this PR on the wpf-notifyicon repo which might solve the issue: hardcodet/wpf-notifyicon#96