polybar Would tooltips be possible?

I have literally no idea so I thought I'll just ask.

Would be kinda cool to have e.g. network up/down speeds, essid etc. or battery charge/discharge times in a tooltip just to name a few.

I assume, as it hasn't even been asked before (I couldn't find anything at least) that there are certain limitations I am not aware of (yet)?

Apr 13 '17 09:04 tadly

This would be a nice feature to have, but it's currently not supported.

Apr 13 '17 17:04 jaagr

In the meantime you could script something together with dzen2.

Apr 28 '17 22:04 tmplt

@Tmplt started just now and and create a kinda tooltip thingy with dzen.

Wanted to use it with polybar buuut than realized that we can't overwrite the clicks per module so there's no real way for me to create tooltips per module unless I'd create custom/scripts for all the things (which I won't).

Anyways, for the dzen hack to somewhat properly work I/we would need #273 first :)

May 04 '17 13:05 tadly

This would be much easier if we could just have a tooltip option that takes a script in the config

Feb 25 '18 06:02 muhmud

This would be wonderful for things like showing a compact network connection icon but an IP address, SSID etc on mouseover. A compact battery percentage on the bar but detailed time remaining to charge/discharge on mouseover. As a kind of work-around, I'm thinking on click displaying the desired info via notify-send.

Aug 16 '18 16:08 nathanchere

I'd even use it to just hover over the clock to see other time zones, system uptime, full date / week number / day of year number for local time zone, et al