Some applications flicker when switching out of the quiet workspace

[vrde]

Problem

When switching out of the quiet workspace, some applications flicker. I noticed this behavior using polybar, dunno if this happens with i3bar as well.

Anyway, this behavior is quite distracting, and it's against the purpose of i3-quiet :)

The flickering is triggered when the quiet-toggle-bar.py script makes the bar visible, specifically:

• The user is on the quiet workspace, and polybar is hidden.
• The user moves out of the quiet workspace.
• The new workspace is now rendered.
• Applications in the new workspace are rendered as well, and they resize to the full height of the screen (the bar is still hidden).
• quiet-toggle-bar.py gets "change workspace" event, and enables polybar.
• Applications in the new workspace resize accordingly.

Solution

One idea is to make the bar transparent. By doing so, the bar would always offset the workspace by its height.