2.0rc4 jwm clock - half second digit cut off a little

[bigpcman]

This is a very minor issue that I hesitate to even bring up. The clock second digit in the top window bar is being cut off just a little bit. Also it looks like the x box is on top of another box. Perhaps this is an attempt to create a shadow effect.

[jpeters]

not my area....but can you try another resolution (pref higher) ?  

[roberts]

I cannot reproduce. Looks fine at 640x800, 800x600, 1024x600.
What resolution are you using? Are you using a custom .jwmrc-tray?
Can you refresh your .jwmrc files from /etc/skel particularly .jwmrc-tray.

[bigpcman]

The problem happens as a result of loading applications. I loaded audacious and emelfm2 and then the "double box" appeared. I don't use any backup so all the files are right off the iso. I'm using 1024x768.

edit: After increasing the resolution to 1400x1050 I can clearly see the double box. The "under" box has an x in it as well.

[roberts]

OK. Another issue with JWM. Here we go again.
Sorry but I am not interested in forking JWM.
We all saw when happened when I dropped JWM.
I did go to the effort to find and fix the full screen bug, which was major.
With other window managers to choose from, I suggest to do so.

[meo]

Hi!

I don't think that it has to do with TC at all. I've had a similar problem in DSL since I started with it more than 5 years ago. The right side of the screen has a tendency to "double" things if they are close enough. For me it only appears using xvesa. I just dont use the whole screen (using firefox, I let a small bit of the right hand side be unused). I don't know if this is what is happening to you but that's the way I deal with the problem that appears to me.

Have fun,
meo

Edit PS I also have a "double x" in the upper right hand corner but It doesn't bother me DS

[jpeters]

Is this  really a jwm issue?  

[meo]

Hi again!

No I don't think so. The problem I mentioned earlier I've had with all wm's I have tried with xvesa. I think It's an xvesa issue with certain graphic cards. I've only seen this on a laptop, never on a stationary pc. But as I mentioned before this is true about the problem I have and that doesn't bother me so much. Jwm with the wbar looks and feels extremely good to work with. I'm more than happy with the current development of TC v. 2.x.

Keep on having fun with TC,
meo

[bigpcman]

You guys probably already know this but the jwm "clock" problem looks like it is caused by the watcher application. If the watcher process is turned off the top bar works fine as near as I can tell.

How about just removing watcher from the base.

[roberts]

Since .jwmrc-tray is in HOME and therefore under your control and backup, you can easily remove or comment out as follows:

<--
      <Swallow name="watcher" width="0"> watcher </Swallow>
-->

Or possibly try specifying the width instead of the automatic width indication of "0"

[bigpcman]

Ok, I think we are getting closer to what's going on. It looks to me like our good friend joe (jwm) is mis-calculating the width required for the combination of the clock and tracker. It has something to do with restarting the process causing tracker to restart and display "starting" . The clock and swallow width are set for "starting" and clock, and don't adapt correctly when "starting" changes to the tracker status output format. The fix for me is to set the clock width to 75 ( I assume is in pixels). I tried this setting for both 1024 and 1400 screen densities and it worked for both. However, I suspect it is affected by screen size so perhaps 1900 x1080 for instance may need a different number for clock width.

So the fix is to add width=75 in the <Clock> ... line in ".jwmrc-tray".

Edit: By the way I did try to set the width of the swallow window but this does not fix the problem. The Clock width must be of a fixed width to fix the problem.