Original thread - (GeForce RTX 4070) GTK application issue with NVIDIA GPU . GNOME Bug report - Tooltips are stretched (#5832) Reposting the thread with a more descriptive title for additional clarity/discoverability. In GTK applications, some menus and tooltips become stretched/improperly sized. H…

[image] Tekstryder: I’m waiting until it’s officially distro-packaged, at least for Arch. Well look at that, @ptr1337 packaged it up for Arch. Arch Linux - egl-wayland2 1.0.0.rc.r47.g3e5b643-1 (x86_64) I’ll mark this 2.5yr old saga as SOLVED when it lan…

Thanks for creating an updated topic here. NOTE: This only affects GTK4 apps. Tooltips in GTK3 apps are displayed properly. Arch Linux | Kernel 6.7.8 Gnome-shell | Mutter 46.rc Wayland (meson_options: xwayland=false) GTK 4.13.8.1 Mesa 24.0.2 nVidia 550.54.14 As one of the folks involved in the o…

This issue is still present with the latest Production Branch drivers and graphics stack. Arch Linux | Kernel 6.7.10 Gnome-shell | Mutter 46.0 Wayland (meson_options: xwayland=false) Gtk4 4.14.1 Mesa 24.0.3 nVidia 550.67

Happy to see this issue has caught some interest from the nVidia side: [image] Tooltips are stretched (#5832) · Issues · GNOME / gtk · GitLab By using bisect I found that 75bea01a introduced this... I’d always suspected that at least one nVidia dev must use G…

Awesome! I recognize Erik’s name as he was involved in some other issues I was tracking (namely explicit sync). Glad to see it’s on their radar now :). Mentioned it’s too late for 555, but at least a fix is incoming some time in the future. Woohoo!

Two things to note on this old issue: A fix never landed still as of the 560 series drivers. I pinged Eric in the bug report, but no response yet. GTK 4.16 switched to Vulkan default, rendering (pun intended) this issue rather moot now. Tooltips are displayed properly with Vulkan.

[image] Tekstryder: This affects the GL and NGL renderers The old GL renderer was removed in the GTK 4.18.x release cycle. [image] Tekstryder: GTK4 application tooltips and popover dialogs are stretched/distorted/frozen. This affects the GL and NGL renderers for GTK4 apps and is wildly …

i wonder if this has the same root cause as this chromium bug

That doesn’t appear remotely related and it is reportedly specific to Xwayland. AND, it has nothing to do with GTK4 or it’s rendering backend. It may be a driver issue. Or, it may be a Chromium issue. Or, it may be a compositor issue. Or some combo thereof.

This issue is still present with nVidia 575.64 New Feature Branch driver. Issue Summary: ‣ The effort by an nVidia developer to address this known issue was abandoned almost a year ago. [image] Tekstryder: A fix never landed still as of the 560 series drivers. I pinged Eric in the bug repo…

GNOME/GTK Application tooltips are stretched/distorted

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Tekstryder March 20, 2025, 9:54pm 7

Unsurprisingly this issue is still present with nVidia 570.133.07 Production Branch drivers.

GTK4 application tooltips and popover dialogs are stretched/distorted/frozen.
This affects the GL and NGL renderers for GTK4 apps and is wildly annoying.

Linking back to overall summary tracker:

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>=334.21 Redrawing problems in Gnome 3.10/3.12 - GTX 580 Linux	98	51629	September 21, 2015
[560.35.03] GTK4 apps background CPU usage with Vulkan renderer Linux nvbugs , vulkan , linux-driver	42	2311	September 12, 2025
Fedora 41 i can't open gnome app(such as gnome-control-center) in wayland Linux	6	1999	September 12, 2024
550.78 release feedback & discussion thread Linux	22	5195	June 26, 2024
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GNOME/GTK Application tooltips are stretched/distorted

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