natsumi commented 7 years ago

Image illustrates the problem:

tool-tip-pos

The tool tip never appears where the cursor is and instead appears outside of the emacs window at the edge of my monitor screen.

System Info :computer:

OS: darwin
Emacs: 25.1.1
Spacemacs: 0.200.5
Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 664ba6a)
Graphic display: t
Distribution: spacemacs
Editing style: vim
Completion: helm

Layers:

(helm emacs-lisp
  (colors :variables colors-enable-nyan-cat-progress-bar t)
  themes-megapack
  (org :variables org-enable-github-support t)
  elixir erlang html javascript markdown nginx python
  (ruby :variables ruby-enable-enh-ruby-mode t ruby-version-manager 'rbenv ruby-test-runner 'rspec)
  ruby-on-rails yaml vimscript auto-completion gtags
  (syntax-checking :variables syntax-checking-use-original-bitmaps t)
  git github version-control)

System configuration features: JPEG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES

swsnr commented 7 years ago

@natsumi Please check whether the issue also occurs in emacs -Q, to rule out that it's a Spacemacs problem.

aguynamedben commented 6 years ago

I also have this problem using Emacs for OS X. I've found that the problem happens when I use ShiftIt and don't subsequently reposition the Emacs window by clicking and dragging it.

General Pattern

Open Emacs.
Move the window manually. flycheck-pos-tip works as expected (tooltip near the text).
Hit a keyboard shortcut to move the window to the top left. flycheck-pos-tip's tooltip is still in the old position.
Drag the Emacs window just a little bit. flycheck-pos-tip appears to get a callback that updates the window position, and the problem is fixed.
Hit a keyboard shortcut to move the window to the bottom right. flycheck-pos-tip's tooltip is still in the old position.
Drag the Emacs window just a little bit. flycheck-pos-tip appears to get a callback that updates the window position, and the problem is fixed.
And so on...

It seems that manually dragging the window updates flycheck-pos-tip.

The painful part is that my Emacs config uses M-x toggle-frame-maximized to fullscreen Emacs. This similarly "magic" repositioning of the window causes the same problem. So I have to barely click and barely drag the window a tiny bit, then the problem is fixed.

It seems that flycheck-pos-tip isn't tuned into macOS "window changed position" callback as good as it could be. Manually repositioning the window updates the tooltip position, but when using keyboard shortcuts or toggle-frame-maximized to reposition Emacs, flycheck-pos-tip doesn't get the updated position, forcing you to manually reposition the window.