waybar/custom tooltips

[Flapper01]

What has happened to tooltips in custom modules? I have a weather app which returns 2 strings, 'text', and 'tooltip' which used to display on hover, but now 'text' is displayed instead? I have downgraded waybar to previous version.

[Flapper01]

OK, solved this - I had tooltip-format statements in my custom modules. Removing those has fixed this issue. However, how do I apply pango markup eg fonts to my tooltips if I can't use a tooltip-format?

[RobertMueller2]

It's possible, but need to mind the levels of escaping. The below works for me.

I think this was only fairly recently fixed with a453ea3c70195803e9962a97f9243c0c78d4ecdc. That should be part of 0.10.3 and later.

#!/bin/sh

TEXT="";
TOOLTIP="DND is enabled";

if [ -e _testxyz ];then
  TEXT="";
  TOOLTIP="<span color=\\\"#ff0000\\\">Notifications are enabled</span>";
  printf '{"text": "%s", "tooltip": "%s"}
' "$TEXT" "$TOOLTIP"
fi

printf '{}'

{
    "layer": "top", // Waybar at top layer
    "position": "top", // Waybar position (top|bottom|left|right)
    "height" : 20,
    "modules-center": ["custom/test-output"],

    "custom/test-output": {
      "format": "{} <span>icon</span>",
      "exec": "./test-output2.sh",
      "return-type":"json",
      "hide-empty-text": true,
      "interval": 1,
    },
}