Re: [Gramps-users] Rapidly flashing notice

[Tom H. <to...@co...>]

He appears to be using Fedora 29, which is what I am using, and I am
not able to reproduce this at all.

I wonder if he's using a different desktop, rather than the Gnome
default?

Tom

On 29/11/2018 17:14, Paul Culley wrote:
> This sounds like you are pausing the mouse cursor over an area that 
> generates a 'tooltip'.  The tooltip generally stays up steady while the 
> cursor is not moving, but goes out and comes back if you move the cursor 
> over the tooltip text.  It should never 'flash'.  This is a function of 
> the Gtk libraries that Gramps uses to interact with the GUI.  Judging by 
> the Python version, you are using some sort of bleeding edge version of 
> Linux.  As the Gtk version was not shown (You can see it if you install 
> the Prerequisites Checker Gramplet in your Dashboard), I cannot tell if 
> this is something due to an early release version of Gtk or some other 
> issue.
> 
> Paul C.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:00 AM Bill Gee <bg...@ca... 
> <mailto:bg...@ca...>> wrote:
> 
>     Lately I have noticed something very annoying in Gramps.  It does
>     not affect
>     how the application works - it's just annoying.
> 
>     This happens in many places throughout the application.  To choose
>     just one:
>     Open the list of places.  Hover the mouse in the bottom pane below
>     the list of
>     places.  This is the area which has several tabs such as Details,
>     Enclosed By,
>     Encloses etc.
> 
>     When the mouse is hovering anywhere in this pane, it rapidly flashes
>     a prompt
>     "Double-click on a row to edit the selected place".  The flash rate
>     is on the
>     order of 5 to 8 times per second.  If I move the mouse to the list
>     pane, it
>     stops flashing.
> 
>     This also happens in the Family list.  In that list, the flashing
>     also happens
>     when the mouse is hovering in the Filter pane.  The prompt in that
>     pane is
>     "Double-click on a row to produce a quick report ...".  It happens
>     in several
>     other places, too, but these should be enough to reproduce and diagnose.
> 
>     Moving the mouse makes it stop flashing even if I do not exit the pane.
>     Looking at htop, I see processor usage by the X server goes from a
>     couple of
>     percent up to about 40%.
> 
>     Is this a Gramps issue?  Or something in Linux?
> 
>      From the Help-About screen:
> 
>     GRAMPS: 5.0.0
>     Python: 3.7.1 (default, Nov 23 2018, 10:01:49) [...
>     BSDDB: 6.2.6 (5, 3, 28)
>     sqlite: 3.24.0 (2.6.0)
>     LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>     OS: Linux
>     Distribution: 4.19.4-300.fc29.x86_64
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Bill Gee
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