Re: [STUMP] Mode-line not updating at right times

[malnourite]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007, cothrige wrote:
> I just noticed that my mode-line, which I have set to display the date
> via a small app, is not
> keeping the time right. I have the timeout set to 10, but it will
> often go for more than a
> minute without updating at all, and often I have to switch windows or
> such to kickstart one.
> I compiled from the source obtained via git (male's tree) from
> yesterday, with sbcl 1.0.12
> on debian testing.  I seem to recall having run into this in the past,
> and just can't recall how
> I handled it then.  Maybe I switched to clisp, but am currently having
> some trouble getting
> stumpwm to compile against that lisp, and so am using sbcl.
> 
> Have others run into this before?  And how might I be able to deal
> with it and get things
> moving more smoothly?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Patrick

All I can say is that it works under clisp. I have much
dynamic content on my mode-line with an update freq of 1sec.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if rebuilding SBCL without
threads fixes it.

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Dec 10 2007,
John Moore Liles