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LemonBoy / bar

A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb
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Bar blinks when text refreshes #166

Closed DanTheDane closed 8 years ago

DanTheDane commented 8 years ago

I'm using the bar together with bspwm.

For some reason the bar blinks shortly every time an item is refreshed via the panel script for bspwm. It follows the timing of the scripts, e.g.

# clock while true; do echo 'C' $(date +"%b %d %k:%M"); sleep 5; done > "$PANEL_FIFO" &

causes it to blink every 5th second.

I can see it's really severe with the krypt-n fork, but I tried with the original lemonbar, and here it's blinking as well although it's significantly shorter.

Is it possible to avoid blinking somehow?

DanTheDane commented 8 years ago

After spending hours debugging and finally filing a bug report, I spot the issue shortly after.

It was due to conflicting code in my script. I have therefore closed this issue.

Sorry for not spotting this prior to filing a bug report