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    • andrecool-68A
      andrecool-68
      last edited by

      Screen scale is 100%

      And why in other editors this does not happen to me?

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      • Meta ChuhM
        Meta Chuh moderator @andrecool-68
        last edited by

        @andrecool-68

        And why in other editors this does not happen to me?

        i don’t know.
        but i see in your video that it seems to happen when tool tips (help info overlay) like the one in this screenshot should appear.
        somehow you seem to get a flickering cursor instead of a tool tip.
        normally the mouse pointer should not change at all.

        alt

        what happens if you change the language to english and then exit and restart notepad++ ?
        does it still show the pointer to cursor change flicker ?

        do you have vnc or any other remote maintenance software installed, especially with a mirror driver that caches the pointers/cursors ?

        I am writing through a translator, so sorry for my English

        the translator you use works very well

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        • andrecool-68A
          andrecool-68
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          It’s really true!
          There should be tooltips and they are not, instead flickers the cursor! It only helps to close the program and reopen it.

          I did not notice that there are no tooltips when this problem occurs.
          There is a beginning! It remains to correct this problem.

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          • andrecool-68A
            andrecool-68
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            This I have installed on the computer http://rgho.st/6ZwpPFqCR

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            • andrecool-68A
              andrecool-68
              last edited by

              noticed that the mouse cursor begins to flicker even when there are ToolTips, switching to another language does not change the problem.
              Link to video http://rgho.st/private/6NBgMLQd7/df6f2d87822e9941c413d0f73b29d176

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              • Meta ChuhM
                Meta Chuh moderator @andrecool-68
                last edited by Meta Chuh

                @andrecool-68

                thanks for your videos, installed programs list and for testing, it is very helpful.
                i hope we can find the cause and maybe a solution too.

                (if any other community member has any ideas, please join.)

                this is very strange and i have not seen this except on virtual machines or screen caching.
                normally the cursor should not change until you enter or leave the editor area, like seen in this video below:

                alt

                one more thing you can try:
                what happens if you boot into safe mode (repeatedly press f8 key at boot) and try notepad++ there ?

                (in safe mode the intel integrated graphics driver will not be started, so if it does not flicker in safe mode it could be a combination of this driver version and notepad++ … or something else that is not started in safe mode)

                side information:
                if you want to embed your pictures here directly, you can post them like this:
                ![alt](url of your picture)

                example:
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                • andrecool-68A
                  andrecool-68
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                  Notepad++ I have been using for a long time.

                  I have this happens on all versions of Notepad++

                  I downloaded NPP.7.6.2 and the problem has not passed.

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                  • cubedjC
                    cubedj
                    last edited by

                    same thing can sometimes happen If you change the delay for the tooltips under the 100ms (default 400ms) through Windows registry or quite a lot of management-suites for Windows includes those settings (f.e. Windows 10 Manager from Yamicsoft)

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                    • andrecool-68A
                      andrecool-68
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                      How to disable these tooltips in Windows 7?

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                      • andrecool-68A
                        andrecool-68 @Meta Chuh
                        last edited by

                        @Meta-Chuh
                        Please help how to inform the author of the program to solve my problem.

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                        • andrecool-68A
                          andrecool-68
                          last edited by

                          Hiding a toolbar is not a solution to the problem.

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                          • Meta ChuhM
                            Meta Chuh moderator @andrecool-68
                            last edited by Meta Chuh

                            @andrecool-68 said:

                            @Meta-Chuh
                            Please help how to inform the author of the program to solve my problem.

                            you did not report what happens if you boot into safe mode (f8) and test notepad++.
                            this is important to know.

                            you can try to submit a request here:
                            https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues
                            but it will not be possible to find the cause, because no one of the devs and regulars can reproduce this problem, as it is not related to notepad++ but to a combination with your system.
                            if a developer would haveexperienced the same problem it would be fixed already.

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                            • andrecool-68A
                              andrecool-68 @Meta Chuh
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                              @Meta-Chuh
                              It was the same in safe mode.

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                              • andrecool-68A
                                andrecool-68
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                                Everyone is asking what the reason is… No one can determine it
                                Some fiction turns out
                                https://ru.stackoverflow.com/questions/928801/%D0%9D%D0%B5-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%83-%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F-%D0%BE%D1%82-%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0-%D0%B2-%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B5-notepad
                                https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/5200

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                                • andrecool-68A
                                  andrecool-68 @Meta Chuh
                                  last edited by

                                  @Meta-Chuh said:

                                  @andrecool-68 said:

                                  @Meta-Chuh
                                  Please help how to inform the author of the program to solve my problem.

                                  you did not report what happens if you boot into safe mode (f8) and test notepad++.
                                  this is important to know.

                                  you can try to submit a request here:
                                  https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues
                                  but it will not be possible to find the cause, because no one of the devs and regulars can reproduce this problem, as it is not related to notepad++ but to a combination with your system.
                                  if a developer would haveexperienced the same problem it would be fixed already.

                                  How do know the cause of this hallucination?

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                                  • Meta ChuhM
                                    Meta Chuh moderator @andrecool-68
                                    last edited by Meta Chuh

                                    @andrecool-68

                                    i’m sorry if i upset you, it was not my intention.
                                    its just very hard to get someone to look into an issue if it is difficult to reproduce, but i might have used the wrong words.

                                    i’ve read at the “stuck at administrator” thread, that you have reinstalled windows 7 x64 instead of x32.
                                    did it solve or improve your flickering cursor problem ?

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                                    • andrecool-68A
                                      andrecool-68 @Meta Chuh
                                      last edited by

                                      @Meta-Chuh said:

                                      @andrecool-68

                                      i’m sorry if i upset you, it was not my intention.
                                      its just very hard to get someone to look into an issue if it is difficult to reproduce, but i might have used the wrong words.

                                      i’ve read at the “stuck at administrator” thread, that you have reinstalled windows 7 x64 instead of x32.
                                      did it solve or improve your flickering cursor problem ?

                                      It just happened again. I watched what was in the task manager (QTranslate, Google Chrome, Notepad ++, Everything)
                                      closed QTranslate and the disappearance was gone, Notepad ++ was open at this time.
                                      Maybe the reason is the QTranslate translator?

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                                      • PeterJonesP
                                        PeterJones
                                        last edited by

                                        @andrecool-68 ,

                                        If you close QTranslate and the problem goes away, then you should try a few more loops to confirm: start the translator, see if Notepad++ flicker comes back, then stop it again. If it’s highly repeatable that it flickers when QTranslator is running and does not flicker without the extra application, then it’s likely the way that QTranslator is interacting with Notepad++ – in which case, the issue might be in either application, or be a subtle interaction of settings in both.

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                                        • andrecool-68A
                                          andrecool-68 @PeterJones
                                          last edited by

                                          @PeterJones said:

                                          @andrecool-68 ,

                                          If you close QTranslate and the problem goes away, then you should try a few more loops to confirm: start the translator, see if Notepad++ flicker comes back, then stop it again.

                                          That’s the only thing left to do …(;

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                                          • Meta ChuhM
                                            Meta Chuh moderator @andrecool-68
                                            last edited by Meta Chuh

                                            @andrecool-68

                                            Maybe the reason is the QTranslate translator?

                                            sidenote to @PeterJones answer, which happened to be almost the same as the one i’ve just been typing for the last minutes but deleted it as i was slower due to trying to choose the phrases that can be translated unambiguously with qtranslator ;-) :

                                            if you find out that qtranslate was the cause, please share it, and if you have time, please do not hesitate to help other community members if they experience a similar problem or any other problems that may interest you.

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