Tooltip Issue When Waybar is Positioned at Bottom

[ashish-kus]

When Waybar is positioned at the bottom, tooltips sometimes do not appear.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Position Waybar at the bottom.
2. Hover over modules.

Expected Behavior: Tooltips should always appear.

Actual Behavior: Tooltips intermittently fail to appear.

config: https://0x0.st/XcAE.jsonc

[shot-codes]

Experiencing this as well. I believe offending tooltips are "appearing" but below waybar and therefore not on the screen. (try runnign another instance of waybar and check the tooltops on that) This is also only happening to my tooltips that are at the end of modules-right, i.e. the ones close to the right side of my display.

[GuillaumeGodin]

Same here, bottom module-right seems to open below and off screen on hyprland 0.41

[milkpuff]

Same problem. Clock tooltip calendar show blow waybar, down out of the screen. If i run 3 waybar instance, I can see it. It should show above, not below if waybar is at bottom.

[LukashonakV]

Hi there, am I understand correct all of you are using hyprland ? @ashish-kus , @shot-codes , @GuillaumeGodin , @milkpuff

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Actually I'm mot able to reproduce this issue nor in sway neither in hyprland... I'd be appreciated for help to reproduce(config, css styling)

[milkpuff]

Yes, archlinux and Hyprland. My config and css file: waybar.tgz @LukashonakV

[LukashonakV]

Yes, archlinux and Hyprland. My config and css file: waybar.tgz @LukashonakV

Unfortunately still not able reproduce

1. Gentoo + Sway
2. Fedora + hyprland
3. Arch + hyprland

@milkpuff is there any chance you're using some additional gtk theme customizing ? for example

less ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[LukashonakV]

I suspect there is some specific user customizing leads to such behavior. At least I used 3 different environments (Gentoo, Arch, Fedora) with provided config + css and got nothing to reproduce the case.

1. @milkpuff can you check waybar right from the source?
2. @milkpuff can you check waybar using different environment (or virtual machine) ?

[milkpuff]

@LukashonakV

` less ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[Settings] gtk-theme-name=Arc-Dark gtk-icon-theme-name=Adwaita gtk-font-name=Cantarell 11 gtk-cursor-theme-name=breeze_cursors gtk-cursor-theme-size=24 gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_BOTH gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR gtk-button-images=1 gtk-menu-images=1 gtk-enable-event-sounds=1 gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=0 gtk-xft-antialias=1 gtk-xft-hinting=1 gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintslight gtk-xft-rgba=rgb gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=0 ` I tested some gtk theme, Breeze, Arc, Adapta. They all perform the same problem. I use archlinux + hyprland 0.41.1. Install waybar from aur and build, same problem.

I test manjaro hyprland 0.40, waybar runs no problem.

looks like new hyprland version lead to this

[shot-codes]

I'm on hyprland/NixOS. My waybar config is here. Current Hyprland commit: fabc30df52ab5d2c369fc8acd4ff909a6ba3b8ac. gtk settings here which results in the following ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:

[Settings]
gtk-cursor-theme-name=phinger-cursors
gtk-cursor-theme-size=24
gtk-theme-name=Materia-dark-compact

[shot-codes]

This is fixed for me on hyprland 8a68199a0ceb2894a5d9cc300961c38123ac0312

[LukashonakV]

Hi @shot-codes , what is the repository for mentioned commit ? I don't see such commit in Waybar repository

[shot-codes]

Sorry for not being more clear. The hash is for a hyprland commit. I am on waybar version 0.10.3. Currently on hyprland version 8a68199a0ceb2894a5d9cc300961c38123ac0312 and the issue is still resolved.

[ashish-kus]

I don't know but for me, it's not working.

[ninetailedtori]

CR on this one still for me. tooltips are just not staying up at all, they keep shortly flickering on when first hovered but they won't show up consistently. Having issues with all tooltips for me except tray, literally only tray is fine for me to show tooltips. Version info:

Hyprland 0.46.0 built from branch main at commit b0bae15499ad57bbfeae8be958df8c022201e583  (master: make loop around optional when cycling (8926)).
Date: Sat Jan 4 16:40:33 2025
Tag: v0.46.0-73-gb0bae154, commits: 5628
built against:
 aquamarine 0.5.1
 hyprlang 0.6.0
 hyprutils 0.3.1
 hyprcursor 0.1.11
 hyprgraphics 0.1.1


no flags were set
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Waybar v0.11.0-98-g9d9f1d68 (branch 'master') [This was also occurring on the standard as well as AUR git package for me however. Built with libcava and a few other supports.]

[bcoutts]

I have this issue as well, but my Waybar is at the top. I'm on Arch with Sway. Reloading my config usually resolves it, but then it comes right back. I have another machine with Fedora and Sway with the same issue.