flickering screen

Claus Bech Hansen · February 23, 2012

Every time Zotero auto-syncs, my screen flickers for a moment. i'm running firefox 10.0.2. on Mac OS X, 10.5.8, 2GB 667 Mhz.

mronkko · February 23, 2012

Really hard to see how this would be related to Zotero. Do you see CPU peaking in Activity Monitor when sync takes place? If so, does your screen flicker when you do something else that is CPU intensive.

dstillman · February 23, 2012

I'm guessing by "screen" Claus means the Zotero pane.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22060/

Claus Bech Hansen · February 23, 2012

Yes, that's right, I mean the Zotero pane and it doesn't occur if I'm in another program, I believe. By 'flickering' I mean that the Zotero pane darkens and you see very briefly the little pop-up bar showing that Zotero is saving something.

I ran some more tests. It seems to only to occur when new information - such as a child note or a new item has been added to the library - is saved through the sync.

If I run actions more CPU intensive, there is no flickering.

dstillman · February 23, 2012

See the other thread. Closing this one.