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cty78ujo

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Genmon tooltip size?

Is there a hardcoded limit to the maximum width/height of tooltips in genmon? For example, here is my source text of my tooltip

and here is the tooltip

It keeps the formatting up to a certain size; as you can in this case it wraps the text to new lines as it is too wide. Is there a way to keep the formatting and make the tooltip 100% width no matter how large it is?

Last edited by cty78ujo (2017-11-10 10:12:19)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Genmon tooltip size?

First question would be, what version of genmon are you using? A 3.x GTK2 version or a 4.x GTK3 version?

Is there a hardcoded limit to the maximum width/height of tooltips in genmon?

No. The code simply uses the gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text() which uses internal GTK functionality for displaying tooltips.

For example, here is my source text of my tooltip

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It keeps the formatting up to a certain size; as you can in this case it wraps the text to new lines as it is too wide. Is there a way to keep the formatting and make the tooltip 100% width no matter how large it is?

Perhaps it is GTK's tooltip functionality that is doing this.

There are two issues here. The first is that the tooltip is using a non-monospaced font, so the alignment will never be correct. Secondly, you probably need to clean that output up manually to get it to display correctly. Something like:

sudo iptables -vnL | grep -A8 INPUT | awk '{printf "%-6s %-6s %-30s %-5s %-5s %-5s %-5s %-16s, %-16s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9}'

..is one example where I'm grabbing a piece of the output and piping it through awk and using printf to format that output.

A second option to clean up the tooltip output if for me to change gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text() to gtk_widget_set_tooltip_markup() so that you can use pango markup in the tooltip (just like you can in the output string). I think I will do that.

Here is what this snippet:

echo "<txt>firewall on</txt><tool><span font='Monospace 6' fgcolor='Green'>$IPT</span></tool>"

...looks like with the output formatted and the code changed to use gtk_widget_set_tooltip_markup() on the GTK3 version of the plugin:

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cty78ujo

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Registered: 2017-10-27

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Re: Genmon tooltip size?

First question would be, what version of genmon are you using? A 3.x GTK2 version or a 4.x GTK3 version?

XFCE 4.12 (xfce panel says 4.12.1), so it should be the newest version that comes with Fedora's XFCE4 goodies package.

There are two issues here. The first is that the tooltip is using a non-monospaced font, so the alignment will never be correct. Secondly, you probably need to clean that output up manually to get it to display correctly.

I didn't realize the tooltip wasn't monospaced and not aligned. Just the line wrapping, but it would be good to get it spaced correctly as well. In this example below, if I use the non verbose version, it doesn't wrap the text to new lines, it only does it in the verbose version, which is why I thought it was related to width.

...looks like with the output formatted and the code changed to use gtk_widget_set_tooltip_markup() on the GTK3 version of the plugin:

Is this a setting I can change somewhere or do I need to recompile xfce/genmon with it somewhere?

Last edited by cty78ujo (2017-11-10 10:14:03)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,492

Re: Genmon tooltip size?

First question would be, what version of genmon are you using? A 3.x GTK2 version or a 4.x GTK3 version?

XFCE 4.12 (xfce panel says 4.12.1), so it should be the newest version that comes with Fedora's XFCE4 goodies package.

What does 'dnf info xfce4-genmon-plugin' report as the version?

...looks like with the output formatted and the code changed to use gtk_widget_set_tooltip_markup() on the GTK3 version of the plugin:

Is this a setting I can change somewhere or do I need to recompile xfce/genmon with it somewhere?

For now, you would need to build only the genmon plugin from source yourself. The change is simple: change 'gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text' to 'gtk_widget_set_tooltip_markup' in the 'DisplayCmdOutput' function.

I will make the change to the git version of the plugin shortly.

EDIT: Commit pushed: https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce … 9ede9e7d87

Last edited by ToZ (2017-10-29 00:59:13)

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