[xmonad] xterm/urxvt display problems

[pascal]

Le Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:28:41 +0100,
Mads N Noe <mntnoe at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 03:32:04PM +0100, pascal wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have a shortcut for launching ncmpcpp (mpd client).
> > When I use it for the first time in the session, the display is
> > fine. But when I spawn it again I get some junk display, some areas
> > of the screen are not refreshed, staying permanently. However if I
> > laucnh ncmpcpp from an existing *term this problem disappears.
> > Any ideas ?
> > 
> > My spawn command is :
> > ((modMask, xK_F1   ), spawn "/usr/bin/urxvt -rv -name ziq
> > -e /usr/bin/ncmpcpp") 
> > 
> > I'm not even sure it's an xmonad related problem
> > 
> > Pascal
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> I had a similar problem with mutt and other ncurses based apps. They
> begin drawing using the original geometry before xmonad gets any
> change to resize it. The reason it works the first time in a session
> is that the startup is slower. I worked around it by making a small
> delay before the app starts. Try something like this:
> 
> spawn "urxvt -e '{ sleep 0.2; myApp; }'"
> 
> Regards,
> Mads

Thanks,  display is fine now with the sleep command.

Pascal