Bug report #14394

Tooltips are blank (2.14, 2.18)

Added by albert dekker over 8 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:GUI
Affected QGIS version:2.14.0 Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:end of life
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:22375

Description

Just got updated to 2.14.
All tooltips are blank.

Screenshot_from_2017-03-09_11-22-39.png - Screenshot showing blank tooltip (146 KB) Will Kemp, 2017-03-08 04:52 PM

History

#1 Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback
  • Resolution set to not reproducable

Platform? Architecture? Language?

#2 Updated by albert dekker over 8 years ago

Thanks for the reply. Sorry should have included that of course.

Ubuntu 15.10,
Language English
Repository: qgis.org/debian/wily.

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 8 years ago

  • Category set to Map Canvas

they seems ok here on 2.14.3 on Ubuntu. Please add steps to replicate the issue, if is still true.

#4 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed

closing for lack of feedback, please reopen if necessary.

#5 Updated by Will Kemp over 7 years ago

I'm having the same problem.

Qgis 2.14.3
Fedora 25
x86_64
English

Steps to reproduce:
1) start Qgis
2) hold mouse pointer over tool or menu item
3) tooltip appears as a blank rectangle.

See attached screenshot.

#6 Updated by Will Kemp over 7 years ago

Problem solved by changing Style from Plastique to Adwaita in Settings-->Options|General.

GTK+ and Adwaita-dark styles also work, however, the text menus disappear in Adwaita-dark (for me, at least).

Windows, Motif, CDE, and Cleanlooks styles all have the same blank tooltips issue.

The Fedora package comes with Plastique as the default style.

#7 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago

  • Regression? set to No
  • Easy fix? set to No

#8 Updated by Sandro Santilli about 7 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)

For the record: same problem with 2.18 on Ubuntu 17.04
Changing style does not seem to help (tried: Window, Plastique, GTK+, Motif) - actually there's NO visible effect in changing those styles...

#9 Updated by Sandro Santilli about 7 years ago

I was wrong, changing style (to GTK2+ for example) DOES fix the issue for me. I just failed to restart after change.

#10 Updated by Sandro Santilli about 7 years ago

  • Subject changed from QGIS 2.14 tooltips are blank to Tooltips are blank (2.14, 2.18)
  • Category changed from Map Canvas to GUI
  • Resolution deleted (not reproducable)

#11 Updated by Sandro Santilli about 7 years ago

I tried all styles, GTK+ is really the only one working for me, all the others have blank tooltips

#12 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Reopened to Closed
  • Resolution set to end of life

End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR

Source:
http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/

QGIS 3.4 has recently become our new Long Term Release (LTR) version. This is a major step in our history – a long term release version based on the massive updates, library upgrades and improvements that we carried out in the course of the 2.x to 3x upgrade cycle.

We strongly encourage all users who are currently using QGIS 2.18 LTR as their preferred QGIS release to migrate to QGIS 3.4. This new LTR version will receive regular bugfixes for at least one year. It also includes hundreds of new functions, usability improvements, bugfixes, and other goodies. See the relevant changelogs for a good sampling of all the new features that have gone into version 3.4

Most plugins have been either migrated or incorporated into the core QGIS code base.

We strongly discourage the continued use of QGIS 2.18 LTR as it is now officially unsupported, which means we’ll not provide any bug fix releases for it.

You should also note that we intend to close all bug tickets referring to the now obsolete LTR version. Original reporters will receive a notification of the ticket closure and are encouraged to check whether the issue persists in the new LTR, in which case they should reopen the ticket.

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