Re: Feature request- Pause updating
- From: Geoff <capsthorne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:45:57 +0000
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:31:13 +1100
<tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > (1) The skipping occurs *only* if no file is selected in the pane (eg
> > the /usr/lib panel updates even if a file is selected in /home). There is
> > no skipping in /usr/lib if I select a file in the panel, even though I then
> > scroll up and down so that it is out of view.
>
> More specifically, nothing was ever selected ? or there was selection (which
> positions the treeview cursor) followed by un-selection ?
When nothing was ever selected. My testing protocol is to open a fresh and
only instance of emelfm2 and move down the file list(s) by use only of the
scroll bar.
I am a dummy, but I don't know how I would un-select having once clicked on a
file? I can select another of course, if that is what you mean?
> > (2) /home does not always skip even if no file is selected - the effect
> > seems to be random.
> > (3) Enabling or disabling '..' makes no difference.
> > (4) /home/me/.xchat2/xchatlogs/ (in which, you will recall, the regularly
> > updated log file resides) never skips - except for a slight realignment of
> > the top line on the first update after I enter the directory.
>
> I'm struggling to construct here a test case that has similar features e.g.
> mere 'watch > some file in a subdir of home' doesn't replicate your
> observations.
>
> Is your lib dir being refreshed due to some access-time change(s) ?
I don't think so. I don't usually show access-times, but did so for the
purpose of testing just now. The skipping occurs even though it is some
minutes (or more), since a library was accessed. I have done the same thing
with /usr/bin and with the same result. So far as I can tell, the skipping is
clearly related to that xchat log file being altered. Even when I have selected
a file (eg a long way down in /usr/lib) so that there will be no skipping, I see
the mouse pointer change briefly to the wristwatch at about the time the
alteration occurs.
Geoff
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