Issue 198: Mplayer flickers in urxvt & floating layer http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=198 Comment #1 by SpencerJanssen: This is almost certainly an issue with urxvt, mplayer, X11, or your graphics card (X11/graphics card seems most likely to me). Please reopen this bug if you've failed to reproduce this in a few other window managers.

Interestingly, I cannot reproduce this starting from gnome terminal, or when I mod-u the mplayer window out of the float layer and into the regular stackset.

The reason for this is that when mplayer is floating urxvt is mapped, but when it is tiled urxvt is unmapped (I assume you're using the full or tabbed layouts). Clearly urxvt can't update the mplayer status line when it is unmapped. Issue attribute updates: Status: Invalid -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings