I ran "ltrace -p `pidof nm-applet` -ttt" just now for quite a while, and it's mostly silent (no output for several seconds at a time), certainly no gtk/gdk calls whilst nm-applet is sat in the background with no interaction/network status changes taking place.
I can only conclude that this has been fixed somewhere along the way :-) ** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- nm-applet causes flicker by needlessly changing itself https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229559 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs