Re: [dwm] save cpu cycles - bar status and wrapper scripts

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it out by wrapping the FD readin
block with if(showbar) and it suppressed the output of the while loop
to the dwm bar.

However, to test it out I put an incrementing value in the while block
of my dwm wrapper script and when I re-enable the bar, the value seems
to have kept incrementing since I last disabled the bar. When I first
re-enable, the value is set to the value it was when I disabled the
bar, but on the next iteration jumps to a value that has been
incremented many times since I disabled the bar. So it seems the
output of the while loop is blocked, but the execution continues.

I dug around on google and couldn't find much more info about blocking
the while loop by not reading in from the pipe. The docs just say the
output is "blocked", but I think it means the output is suppressed
while the command continues to run.

So this is definitely less code and more elegant, but doesn't quite work.

Cheers,
Alex

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Monsieur Pinocchio <cchinopio_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Alex Matviychuk <alexmat_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a wrapper script for dwm that checks a bunch of devices running
>> on my laptop. I was thinking that a lot of times I don't even have the
>> dwm bar up (i tend to hide it often for full screen work) and so why
>> should the wrapper script constantly poll for status bar info if I
>> can't see it. Long story short, I made a small change to write out a
>> file to /tmp whenever the status bar is visible. Any thought if this
>> is the right approach? Is there a less barbaric way to alert my dwm
>> wrapper script that the bar is hidden?
>>
>> Diff is attached. I also added a config param to specify the filepath
>> for the file that gets written.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
>
> How about just not polling the input fd when bar is disabled? This will
> basically just block the write of the external command which is sending data
> into dwm and cause the external command to go to sleep thus automatically
> stopping it (and resuming it once the bar is shown again).
>
> --
> Pinocchio
Received on Wed Jul 30 2008 - 19:34:37 UTC