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torsmo flashes on the desktop
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RESOLVED: INVALID
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Xfdesktop
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Description ardo 2004-12-25 20:03:14 CET
This problem occured just recently in XFCE4.2 RC3. Before upgrading from RC2 I
had been using torsmo (a small system monitoring program) just fine, but now it
flickers - it stays on the screen for a few seconds and then disappears for a
few seconds, then appears again. It it very similar to the behaviour torsmo
shows in kde. There is a way to correct the flickering problem : if I start
torsmo with the -o option (from torsmo manual "-o  Create own window to draw"),
it doesn't flicker anymore, but it is still somewhat annoying as it now tends to
stay on top of other windows. 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2004-12-25 20:43:26 CET
sorry, but you're not giving me enough information.  does it flicker on its own,
or does it flicker when windows are dragged across it?  if it's the former,
that's almost certainly a bug in torsmo.

xfdesktop doesn't use double buffering for drawing the backdrop, which may
contribute to the problem, though that hasn't changed in a long time.  i *did*
change how the desktop is drawn between rc2 and rc3, which may be the problem,
but the change was required for other reasons, so it's not going back.
Comment 2 ardo 2004-12-26 00:18:31 CET
It is flashing on its own regardless of other windows or their movement. When I  
start xfce it is the only application that I have set to start automatically  
and it starts flashing on and off already then.  In torsmo readme this is said:  
  
KNOWN PROBLEMS  
  
   Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly doesn't work with  
   all window managers. Especially doesn't work well with Gnome and it has  
   been reported that it doesn't work with KDE either. Nautilus can be  
   disabled from drawing to desktop with program gconf-editor. Uncheck  
   show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/. There is -w switch in torsmo  
   to set some specific window id. You might find xwininfo -tree useful to  
   find the window to draw to. You can also use -o argument which makes  
   torsmo to create its own window.  
  
So I guess it is a torsmo issue (either a bug or a feature). You say the  
change in the way the desktop is drawn is intentional, so guess i'll be 
switching back to gkrellm  
Comment 3 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2004-12-26 04:37:25 CET
yep, this is a torsmo's problem.  i'd suggest looking into the -w switch, if you
explicitly pass it xfdesktop's window id, it may work better (?).  you can get
the window id the same way i do it here:

http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfce4/root-tail-xfdesktop.txt

Bug #610

Reported by:
ardo
Reported on: 2004-12-25
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

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Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail)
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