Steps to reproduce
- to test I opened a new vault and clicked on the “create a link” link in the “Welcome” note so that I had 2 notes.
- I then typed out “create a link again” at the bottom of the “Welcome” note
- Then simply switch to the “create a link” note, check the Backlinks sidebar and the sentence from the previous step appears in “Unlinked Mentions” but there is no option to link that mention even after fully expanding the section until you can see all of the text in the other note.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.7.7
Installer version: v1.6.7
Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:30:25 +0000 6.6.30-02726-gb84bbdf6955e
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
Can you show a screenshot?
this is while I’m hovering over the box trying to get the button to show up
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and here is the “Welcome” note within the same vault, as you can see the button shows up as it should in the outgoing links sidebar but not the backlinks one
Update, i’ve now also tried deleting and re-downloading the AppImage so that the Installer Version is also v1.7.7 but unfortunately no improvement on the situation.
hover the mouse over the section in the sidebar, you will see a link button appear
In the screenshot sent i am hovering my mouse over the section in the sidebar, my mouse just disappears from screenshots for some reason.
My screen recordings aren’t saved in a file format that i can send here but I am quite literally doing the exact same thing with no button appearing
which system are you using exactly? hardware and os.
I’m using a linux virtual machine on an Acer R751T Chromebook that natively has ChromeOS 126.
This is my linux version info:
PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)”
NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“12”
VERSION=“12 (bookworm)”
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.debian.org/”
SUPPORT_URL=“Debian -- User Support”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.debian.org/”
I think you virtual machine software is not passing the mouse hover events from the host to the guest. Moved to help section.
but the arrow to expand the section still appears when I hover my mouse over, I used to use this button all the time and it broke with no update to my system
If you can make this bug happen outside a VM, open a new bug report, we’ll look at it. thanks
