Newlines not shown when using trayicons on Ububtu

[Jonathan Culloty]

A bit of an obscure problem here but someone might have an idea...

I've a multiplatform app that displays some info in the system tray...
When a user hovers the mouse over the tray icon a tooltip is displayed.
The info in my tooltip requires newlines to make it readable...
Windows and OSX have no problem with the newlines, but newlines are not shown in the tooltip when I'm running on ubuntu.
My code looks something like this...

TrayIcon trayIcon = new TrayIcon(xxx,yyyy,zzz);
trayIcon.setToolTip("Result A: "+aval+"\nResult B: "+bval);

Anyone have any suggestions, this is driving me mad :-)
Thanks,
Jonathan

[Campbell Ritchie]

Don't know. You could try using the String.format method and %n, but I suspect that will simply convert to \n, in which case it will make no difference.

[Maneesh Godbole]

1) Try inserting a space between "\n" and Result
2) Consider using html for tool tips.

[Jonathan Culloty]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I tried using HTML to format it but its not supported for trayicon tooltips.
Its only supported for normal graphics...
Space between \n and Result did help either..

I'll try String.format later but I suspect it'll be the same result.

Cheers,
Jon