Re: Flicker in 1.8.0

[<sentry21@cdslash.net>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, war wrote:

> Not sure what he's talking about.
> However, I also get flicker as well, 1.8.0 + 1.8.1.
> Just chatting, I see flicker.

I've gotten flicker too. I managed to track mine down though.

After enabling the lag timers and whatnot in the config (which show up
under the user list), I noticed occasionally that I was getting flicker on
a regular basis - every second or so, my shell tabs would flicker, which
is a pain when you're writing e-mail.

The problem was that I had mad lag to the server, and every second, XChat
updated the timer - all of them, in all my windows, to all my servers -
and it would flicker as it redrew them every second, which it had to do
beacuse the lag bar filled up and the numerical values changed.

I consider this a flaw in GTK personally (one of many).

I can't help but wonder if getting XRENDER working on my compile of X
would help at all, letting the text drawing occur on the server side
instead of the client/library side (and being antialiased too).

Anyone have any insight? Maybe this is causing flicker for people too.

Incidentally, I've noticed that the lag bar fills up rather rapidly, and
is full long before xchat gives up on the server and disconnects. Perhaps
it could be changed so that the max value for the bar is equal to the time
xchat waits before giving up?

--Dan

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