On OSX flycheck messages show up on the monitor where the cursor is

[carloscheddar]

Using OSX flycheck popup messages for errors and warnings show up on the monitor that has the cursor instead of only displaying on top of the spacemacs window.

[StreakyCobra]

What's your emacs version?

In Emacs < 24.4 this is a known behaviour. Either update Emacs or add flycheck-pos-tip to the dotspacemacs-excluded-packages list :-)

[StreakyCobra]

Reference: flycheck/flycheck-pos-tip#6 (comment)

[carloscheddar]

Thanks I'll check that out but my version is 24.5.1.

[StreakyCobra]

Weird. It's known that the tooltip goes over all windows, but there is normally a hook that disable the tooltip when the focus is exited from Emacs.

Or maybe are you in a situation where Spacemacs has the focus and another window is overlapping it on a side?

[carloscheddar]

In my case Emacs has the focus but the cursor is on the second monitor which makes the tooltip show up where the cursor is located. When emacs loses focus the tooltip disappears so that's working correctly.

[StreakyCobra]

Oh, the mouse cursor, not the emacs cursor :-) Ok I got it.

This is probably an upstream issue, but let's ask @lunaryorn to be sure.

The package providing the tooltip is flycheck-pos-tip, but it's using another library (pos-tip) to show the tooltips, so I suppose it should be reported there.

[swsnr]

It sure sounds like an upstream issue. I'd appreciate if you could report this issue to flycheck-pos-tip, lest I forget about it.

Thank you very much

[carloscheddar]

Oh my bad I should've been more specific. Thanks for the help, I'll report there.

[StreakyCobra]

@carloscheddar When you have done this, please put a link back here :-)

[carloscheddar]

@StreakyCobra Here it is flycheck/flycheck-pos-tip#15

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