Debug hovers often stop working after debugging for a bit

[eamodio]

This feels relatively recent, but I've been having a lot of issues with debug hovers not showing up over variables, etc. I don't have any reproducible steps, except for it seems to happen after debugging for a little while. And when it happens, the variables view will still show the contents of the variable I try to hover over.

[eamodio]

It might have to do with switching away from vscode while debugging and back. Since I just did that, and when I came back to vs code the hovers I was getting were GitLens rather than debug. And then when I stepped to the next line all hovers went away.

[isidorn]

@eamodio thanks Eric for reporitng this. This is probably related to this change #84561
In short: when holding alt we hide the debug hover on purpose. Though it should come back when you are not holding the alt key.
Now that you know the motiviation behind the change it might be easier to find repro steps? Where you holding the alt key or was it unrelated to this?

[eamodio]

@isidorn it definitely is related to alt. It seems when I alt+tab out of vscode, vscode still thinks alt is down (or it just never gets the up) so it stops showing the debug hovers until I press alt again.

Also given that alt by itself (on Windows) focuses the menu bar it seems like that would be an issue (although I have the alt focusing the menu bar turned off)

[isidorn]

@eamodio I can also listen to some focus lost and restart it then. Hopefully that should fix it.