Re: Flicker in 1.8.0

[Spider <spider@bahnhof.se>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:50:02 -0400 (EDT)
<sentry21@cdslash.net> wrote:

> 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.

ohh yes, Ten points and give the man a cigar, Its the lag meter.. After reading this i finally correlated what it was that happened, and youre right, everytime the lag-meter moves in its update it flickers on the tabs as well. 
(my personal guess was the notify meter... but seems i was wrong there)

> 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.

mmh, Its correct.. only happends when the lag changes though, and since I'm on a fairly stable connection theese days it doesn't change that overly much ... ( 0.6 seconds through the proxy and a compreessed SSH2 pipe) 
 
> I consider this a flaw in GTK personally (one of many).

hmm, Not so sure if its directly involved with GTK or if its to be blamed on some refresh routine thats called every update in every window instead of once per batch of meters. Then again, I'm not a gtk+ coder. : ) 


> 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).

hmm... Does the stable branch of Gtk+ support this? i thought it was only used in the gtk2 cvs series.. and that isn't really stable....yet ;-)


> Anyone have any insight? Maybe this is causing flicker for people too.
Youre right, its the lag'o'meter bar.. not the text though i dont think..


> 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?

No thanks, that would be too difficult to discern at a glance.. But I'd rather see a setting for the full-lag-bar in seconds.. now i think it is three seconds.. On a net such as undernet it should at least be 8 seconds, preferably 45 at some days :7 


//Spider
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