I can confirm that Eli's patch fixed the above problem on my end.
`x-hide-tip` now returns true when there is a tooltip active.

Thanks all

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Noah Peart <noah.v.peart@gmail.com> wrote:

> I will try to give it a shot shortly and report back.  My value of
> 'x-gtk-use-system-tooltips’
> was 't'.  Sorry I had focused on 'x-hide-tip' and forget 'pos-tip' wasn't
> part of emacs.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> > Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:41:19 +0100
>> > From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
>> > CC: noah.v.peart@gmail.com, 24899@debbugs.gnu.org
>> >
>> >  > Martin, did you try this on master or on the emacs-25 branch?
>> >
>> > On master.  The OP's build time was more recent than mine ;-)
>> >
>> >  > I think
>> >  > there's an omission in the Emacs 25.1 code, which the OP is running,
>> >  > that is already fixed on master.  For emacs-25, the following patch
>> >  > should at least bring you closer to the solution,
>> >
>> > Emacs-25?  This bug is more than six years old.
>>
>> I meant the branch, not the release.  I'm not sure we should fix it in
>> 25.2, given the age of the bug.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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