Bug 2781 - Docker keeps all the icons flashing on Blackbox
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Openbox
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 major
Assignee: Dana Jansens
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Reported: 2006-07-14 00:24 EDT by Sven Kauber
Modified: 2013-02-28 07:15:57 EST
1 user (show)

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Description Sven Kauber 2006-07-14 00:24:05 EDT 
I am having this problem with Docker in Blackbox: Docker constantly makes the icons flash, like 1-3 times per second. I've tried resizing the icons and change the Docker window placement, but still icons keep on flashing.

Here is the info about my computer:

Distro: Arch Linux
Kernel: 2.6.17.3
Blackbox version: 0.70.1
Xorg version: xorg-server 1.0.2 and xorg-clients: 7.0
Screen resolution: 1024x768
Video driver: radeon opensource
Comment 1 Dana Jansens 2007-03-02 09:26:45 EST 
i don't know about docker. i think it's pretty much dead for now, at least to me. there are so many other systray implementations around.
Comment 2 Sven Kauber 2007-03-02 09:45:06 EST 
(In reply to comment #1)
> i don't know about docker. i think it's pretty much dead for now, at least to
> me. there are so many other systray implementations around.
> 

I agree, I have started to use Beryl and xfce now and it is almost as fast as Blackbox
Comment 3 Sy Ali 2007-03-04 09:37:23 EST 
I also see this same problem.  I'm looking through this list of suggestions:

http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/BlackboxAddons#PanelsAndToolbars
Comment 4 Sy Ali 2007-03-04 10:19:58 EST 
Just a quick followup..

I ended up using fbpanel[1] and editing ~/.fbpanel/default to remove the nonessentials.

I also saw fspanel[2], which I like a lot.. except that it doesn't support tray icons (which I require for kgpg)

With my searching I wasn't able to find a definitive list of other such applications, and since fspanel works so well for me, I didn't look much further.



[1] http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net
[2] http://www.chatjunkies.org/fspanel/
Comment 5 Samuel Fadel 2010-07-13 18:02:29 EDT 
(In reply to comment #0)
> I am having this problem with Docker in Blackbox: Docker constantly makes the
> icons flash, like 1-3 times per second. I've tried resizing the icons and
> change the Docker window placement, but still icons keep on flashing.
> 
> Here is the info about my computer:
> 
> Distro: Arch Linux
> Kernel: 2.6.17.3
> Blackbox version: 0.70.1
> Xorg version: xorg-server 1.0.2 and xorg-clients: 7.0
> Screen resolution: 1024x768
> Video driver: radeon opensource

I am currently using Blackbox (0.70.1) and Docker (1.5) and also noticed this problem. When I searched for it on the web and also saw other people had this problem too, I decided to see what was wrong in the code. Then, I noticed in docker.c:270 that the original coder created a "fake" window in every loop iteration to refresh the icons. I thought that would be the problem and commented out that section of the code just to see what would happen and... bam, problem solved.

So far I haven't seen any problems, the icons refresh themselves properly and the flashing is gone. Hope it helps.