[Notion-general] blinkin' n' thinkin'

[Wojtek A. <pen...@gm...>]

Hi all!
I have a problem with statusbar which notoriously "blinks" everytime
(it seems) it refreshes. At least, it occurs when I use more data
displayed on the bar. My current template in the cfg_statusbar.lua
is/was:

template=" %date | mem: %mem_hfree/%mem_hused |
battery:%linuxbatt_state%linuxbatt %watime | up %uptime | %mocp_title
[%mocp_currenttime] | user: %cpustat_user | wifi:
%netmon_kbsin/%netmon_kbsout  %filler%systray",

in theory, any of these fields can have a different refresh time,
nevertheless when - for example - I only use template=" %date", the
statusbar doesn't bink at all even when the hour changes. I have luck
also when using two or three other fields, but for full bar, it blinks
like crazy approximately every 2 seconds.

I could accept the fact that the statusbar blinks, but I have at my
disposal another computer system (desktop with ubuntu 10.04 and ion3)
on which, for the same template, there is no "blinking" effect. So
why?

Obviously, I'm used to notion/ion so much, that I'm not considering
becoming frustrated:), but today, somehow, the blinking started to
iritate me. Hence, I went to construct quickly a bash script which
uses dzen2 to display an alternative statusbar. It works OK, but
unfortunately I don't know how to use in notion in a satisfying way
(e.g. I don't want windows to go under it -especially the F3/alt-F3
queries).  And so, I would like to know what do you think about it.

regards
wojtek
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