Thorsten Wißmann

No there weren't updates. I think I missed a hidden approval step. in the above cited mail, a couple of paragraphs later, there was a sentence: > \*Please reply to...

This looks very specific to the terminal emulator used. (Here, I don't have this issue with urxvt, and also with sakuar, it seems fine).

I doubt that there is a configuration option in my config that helps with that. But here are my `.Xdefaults`: https://github.com/t-wissmann/dotfiles/blob/master/Xdefaults

I don't have any idea yet how to fix this. I suspect that it's the same issue as #402. And a similar issue can be triggered when running `telegram-desktop -startintray`.

I'm wonderung whether this bug is fixed in the winterbreeze branch, where the issue with `telegram-desktop -startintray` is fixed (the fixing PR was #551, commit cf7a170c41d66a935bc09aa8f5f80859894076fc). Edit: now this fix...

> I get these black boxes with other apps as well, such as VS Code and Steam, due to tooltip windows that aren't removed. To remove them I either have...

@Nairou: the issue still exists in 0.7.2. I have fixed a very similar issue in 0.8.0, and I suspect that it also solves this issue here. Herbstluftwm 0.8.0 came out...

> I wonder if #1019 could fix this. I started to run that branch to see if anything changes, thus it's a bit difficult without a reliable way to reproduce...

I still see it from time to time in steam.

This is a funny story :) But I fear reproducing it on windows is not worth the time :/