yab is jumpy, is this normal?

mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

I just emerged adesklets and yab today. I have to say adesklets looks pretty nice, and same with yab, but when I mouse over the icons in yab (default setup) it appears very jumpy. Is this normal behavior? I tried messing with the config for a little while but whatever I did made it look worse.

As an aside the captions dont seem to come up even though it is enabled in the config.

Any yab tips?

syfou · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:28 am Post subject: Shameless plug

You might want to try this patch. Just come over to the adesklets' forum discussing this: your chance having better answers would certainly increase by double posting. :lol:

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mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

hmm... I tried the patch but the jumpy behavior is still the same. Maybe I will post over at the other forum when I get a chance.

BTW - The text was appearing before, it was being covered up, so one problem down

Jerem · Apprentice Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 177

Right click on the yab bar and choose the configure option.

There you will find self-explanatory variables like caption_delay or caption_fade_in_duration. Set this to a lower value if you want the caption to appear quicker than default.

The jump effect is part of the yab bar and I think it cannot be altered.

Maybe you are looking for a "parabolic zoom" option. For this try Engage (E17 docking app). However, it is still under heavy development.

mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

Yeah I've tried out engage and a few other bars. To tell you the truth I'm just playing around with them, not really doing anything serious. I was curious about Yab, because I thought it had some nice eyecandy aspects.

osbourd2 · Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject:

I'm not getting the flickering you mention, but I am only able to run yab as root.

I get the following error when running it as my own user