Hovering over Fretboard Diagrams not showing chord name
I have Musescore installed on three computers, a Chromebook, and old (OLD) Linux laptop, and a brand new System 76 Lemur Pro. On the Chromebook and the old Linux laptop whenever I hover over any of the Fretboard Diagrams the chord name shows. I just installed Musescore on my new Lemur Pro and when I hover over the Fretboard Diagrams no chord names show. If I add one to my score, the chord name shows above the diagram, it's just not showing on hover. Is there a setting that I need to change to make this happen? It was automatic on my other two laptops.
Thanks.
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As far as I know there's no setting for this
Be sure you have the current version of MuseScore (3.6.2). I think some older versions did not include these tooltips. Also be sure you are using the default workspace and palette and not a custom one. If you are using a custom one, you have to add the tooltips yourself, by right-clicking the palette cell and clicking Properties.
In reply to Be sure you have the current… by Marc Sabatella
I'm currently using 3.6.2. If I right-click the pallette and look at properties, the chord name is there. When I add a chord box to the score the chord name is there, I simply don't get the chord name when I hover over the fretboard diagrams. Having that makes is so much easier for me to find the correct diagram.
In reply to Be sure you have the current… by Marc Sabatella
It seems that Musescore is not showing any tool tips at all on hover even though all of the properties are populated with something. This is not just for the fretboard diagrams but the entire program.
In reply to It seems that Musescore is… by bigbluecrab
Works for me, MuseScore 3.6.2, Windows 11
In reply to Works for me, MuseScore 3.6… by Jojo-Schmitz
I figured it out. I have a new System76 Lemur Pro running Linux. I installed Musescore via the Pop! Shop, System76's software repository, on my other systems I installed via the AppImage on Musescore's website. I removed Musescore from my Lemur Pro and installed via the AppImage and the tool tips now work. They program fonts were so small as to be barely legible (this was not an issue on my other two machines) so I went into the Preferences and bumped them all up and now things seem to be working fine.
Thanks for all the help. Hopefully this will help someone else that has my same issue.
In reply to I figured it out. I have a… by bigbluecrab
The small fonts are a sign your system isn't correctly relaying the display resolution to MuseScore - not uncommon for high DPI systems. On Linux, usually the simplest solution if to tell MuseScore the resulting yourself, with the "-D xxx" command line option (where "xxx" is the true resolution in DPI). There are also a couple of relevant environment variables you can set in addition or instead - QT_SCALE_FACTOR (set to a scaling factor, like 2.0 to double the size of everything) or QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR (set to 1 to have the Qt libraries attempt to scale everything automatically, or to 0 to turn that off if it is already trying that but failing).