Jamie Macdonald

So, using `--refresh-rate 0.1` seems to make the issue much less obvious, (it won't full-out skip numbers) but it still seems like it's got an uncanny lag.

If I log out and in to a tty and modify my `xinitrc` to end with ``` i3lock --clock --nofork ``` instead of my window manager, it seems pretty well-behaved,...

bspwm with compton tryone fork.

I just tested without compton running, I still get a skipped number and a noticable lag in the first few seconds while launching from bspwm.

The skipped numbers happen kind of irregularly, and about every 2 minutes maybe? I just watched for 2 minutes with a metronome at 60bpm without compton running, I noticed a...

So, I found the option `--redraw-thread`: > Starts a separate thread for redrawing the screen. Potentially worse for security, but makes the bar indicator still do its usual periodic redraws...

So, it's commits 3edfb79f96254e93e5c98d54add290e789cfb60d and 59cdccb3e510c5d393cab9656b8a30efd37b45e6 which add the render thread option, which was after the fork, and i3/i3lock doesn't have either the --redraw-thread option or the --clock option, so...

Hey @darrenbrokeit I have made some progress on this but haven't touched it in a couple of months! The most promising technique I found was to decompile the official acaia...

Thanks for raising the issue! I haven't used mpd for a while now actually, and so haven't maintained this. I might start using it again soon though.