On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:04:50PM -0400, mikshaw wrote: > According to the wmii-3 guide, section 6.5, removing the status label > before running a new instance of status "ensures that the status label > will not exist, hence all the writes made from any previously running > status script will fail, thus they will finish." This works fine if > you leave the sleep time at the default 1 second. However, as was > suggested elsewhere I extended the sleep time to 20sec to reduce the > system load a little. This results in the previous status scripts > not finishing, because they are usually sleeping during the 2-second > period that the status label is non-existent. By the time they wake > up, the status label has been recreated and so they continue their > loop. This results in multiple instances of status and multiple > instances of sleep. After several runs of wmiirc the status bar is > constantly being written, which negates the original purpose of > extending the status sleep time.
Yes that is true, and in such scenario one needs to sleep after the remove at least the same timeout, than refresh. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
