Bug 510712 - Bizarre hoover over text behaviour
Summary: Bizarre hoover over text behaviour
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: konsole
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 22.12.3
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konsole Developer
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Reported: 2025-10-17 08:03 UTC by davidblunkett
Modified: 2025-10-20 01:50 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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pink square tan demo (13.26 KB, image/png)
2025-10-17 08:03 UTC, davidblunkett
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attachment-269544-0.html (164 bytes, text/html)
2025-10-17 16:04 UTC, ninjalj
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Description davidblunkett 2025-10-17 08:03:13 UTC
Created attachment 185853 [details]
pink square tan demo

If I hoover the mouse pointer over the word "tan" konsole produces a strange pink square.  I've not noticed it do this for any other word and I've not down anything that makes "tan" special (such as search).  It doesn't work for "ta" and it doesn't work for the string "tan" inside another string (eg stan and tango are normal). It respects certain white space so " tan " " tan(" ")tan" "*tan" both produce the square but "stan" doesn't.

I can only presume this is some feature I'm unaware of gone wrong but what it is I've no idea.
Comment 1 ninjalj 2025-10-17 16:04:11 UTC
Created attachment 185865 [details]
attachment-269544-0.html

Thst would be the show color when hovering option. You would get a similar
result hovering over the words blue or red, or over some color in
hexadecimal format.
Comment 2 davidblunkett 2025-10-19 20:36:31 UTC
Ok - that works - colours - I suppose "tan" might be a colour.

What possible reason is there for coding this into konsole? how do I turn this off? I can't help thinking this is completely un-useful bloat!
Comment 3 argonel 2025-10-20 01:50:57 UTC
(In reply to davidblunkett from comment #2)

> Ok - that works - colours - I suppose "tan" might be a colour.

It uses the color names found in https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#ColorKeywords.

> ... how do I turn this off?

The setting is "Preview Colors on hover" in the profile's Mouse -> Miscellaneous settings.

n.b. Prior to Konsole version 22.07 the setting was called "Allow Color Filters". As of version 24.05 (released 23 May 2024), the preview has a caption.