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Article #1080Re: ubuntu on the net
From: James C
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:06
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:06
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On 16/07/08 20:31, Will Kemp wrote: > James C wrote: >> On 16/07/08 16:28, Will Kemp wrote: >>> James C wrote: >>>> I thought Network Manager was a Gnome app. >>>> I don't use it because it continuously flickers busily on the panel. >>> I've never seen it flickering at all! And i've been using it every >>> day for a couple of years now. >> >> It might be because my graphics card isn't fast enough. >> Or perhaps because I have an unused ethernet card. > > It still shouldn't flicker. I've never seen the NetworkManager network > status icon (in the notification area on the task bar - which i assume > is what you're referring to) doing anything that i could imagine being > able to flicker. Except, possibly, the signal strength bars that are > displayed when wireless is in use. I can't imagine them actually > flickering, though - although if the signal strength changes, they > change. But they should never change fast enough to flicker. > > Maybe there was some weird bug in the version you were using at the time... Hmm, maybe it was -- I just fired up "nm-applet --sm-disable" (the command in the "Network Manager" session startup program that I had disabled) and it doesn't flicker now. Yes, it is the networking icon in the panel's Notification Area. (I was already running the Network Monitor in the panel, which looks the same except it also shows the wireless signal strength next to the two screens.) Or it might have been Xgl, which I uninstalled because my hardware wasn't up to it.
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