Re: [dev] [dmenu] ASCII tab and unit separator cause startup lag

From: Eric Pruitt <eric.pruitt_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 18:59:33 -0700

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 10:06:35AM -0400, Greg B wrote:
> I am using the packaged dmenu in Ubuntu 20.04. A sample of the output of
> my window listing script is below, along with two simpler samples
> exhibiting slow startup behavior.
>
> I'm happy to do further testing or troubleshooting if anyone can point
> me in the right direction.
>
> -gb
>
> $ dmenu -v
> dmenu-4.8
>
> # simple repro with tabs - startup render seems to scale linearly with
> # number of tabs
> $ for i in {1..10}; do echo $'\t'; done | dmenu

I can reproduce this issue on Debian 10.

Eric
Received on Fri Aug 07 2020 - 03:59:33 CEST