Re: Xnews Annoyance

Eric <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> MartinS wrote:
>> Robert Singers <rsingers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>Between saving the world and having a spot of tea Tom McCune said
>>>
>>>>I just got a new computer with a 19 inch flat panel monitor, so have
>>>>finally gone to running Xnews in a normal window, instead of
>>>>maximized as I had always done. I always use just a single pane
>>>>display of Xnews. Because of this change, I now notice that when
>>>>opening a newsgroup, and when having multiple news group servers
>>>>active and clicking on the button at the bottom of the window to
>>>>switch servers, all the icons on the desktop flash/flicker. This is
>>>>annoyiny and I don't see this happen with any other software. What
>>>>would cause and/or resolve this?
>>>>
>>>>I just went over to my laptop that was my primary computer for the
>>>>last couple years, and when running Xnews in a normal window, see
>>>>that the same thing is happening there.
>>>
>>>I run two monitors at work and I notice that when I changes NG on the
>>>same server Xnews causes the same thing on the other monitor. It
>>>looks to me like XNews somehow triggers everything to redraw.
>>
>> One solution in XP - first move (right-drag) the icons you actually
>> use to the Quick Launch Bar or the Start Menu. Then hide your
>> remaining desktop icons (right-click, Arrange Icons, Hide Desktop
>> Icons). Gives you a pristine screen (wallpaper only) if you also
>> Auto-hide the Taskbar.
>
> This is a terrible solution: "just get rid of the icons!" There is a
> problem in the code someplace that is doing this, maybe it will get
> fixed. Something tells me that you might be waiting a while if Luu
> always reads news maximized, though.

Works for me! I can access all my programs with one click from the
Taskbar without having to go back to the Desktop. And when I close or
minimize all the windows, just the wallpaper shows.

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Martin S.
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