Indicator Sysmonitor

Application indicators keep shifting with CPU/Mem updates

Bug #743651 reported by Sohail Mirza
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Indicator Sysmonitor
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Bug Description

As the CPU usage flips between single and double digit (and presumably also triple digit values), the application indicators that appear to the left of indicator-sysmonitor shift left and right by a few pixels. This turns out to be quite distracting to continually see peripheral movement in the top right-hand corner of the screen.

The attached screenshot illustrates the problem.

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lp:~mh21/indicator-sysmonitor/fix-743651
Alex Eftimie: Pending requested
Diff: 46 lines (+9/-6)
1 file modified
indicator-sysmonitor (+9/-6)
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Sohail Mirza (mirzmaster) wrote :
Alex Eftimie (alexeftimie)
Changed in indicator-sysmonitor:
status: New → Confirmed
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Alex Eftimie (alexeftimie) wrote :

Hi Michael, thank you for the fix. Can you merge the branch with latest commits from trunk, and propose it for merging? Many thanks.

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Alex Eftimie (alexeftimie) wrote :

The problem still occurs after the merge, I can't mark this as fixed.

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dayf (dayf) wrote :

not too nice but imo better than jumping indicator positions: preceding zero, i.e. in /usr/bin/indicator-sysmonitor ...

    def _fetch(self):
        mem_pct = self._fetch_mem()
        cpu_pct = self._fetch_cpu()
        return {'cpu': '%02.0f%%' % cpu_pct,
            'mem': '%02.0f%%' % mem_pct,
        }

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geoffrey (gkgeko) wrote :

+1 for hamlet's proposed solution (add 0 before single digit), this would solve the problem for me.

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Jack O'Connor (gnujack) wrote :

+1 for hamlet's solution. Any idea when this will be implemented? Many thanks.

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Alex Eftimie (alexeftimie) wrote :

should be fixed in 0.3.1

Alex Eftimie (alexeftimie)
Changed in indicator-sysmonitor:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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dani_bs (sdaniele78) wrote :

It is fixed the text about {cpu}, but the same problem is for {net}. I suggest
%d000MB|KB|##/s

where ## is for "bytes" and can be:
- 2 spaces
- BB
- BY
- BT
- :)
- ...

because it is very distracting.
Thanks alot for indicator,

Daniele

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