[xmonad] XMonad Efficiency

[Allen S. Rout]

On 04/16/2012 03:09 PM, Norbert Zeh wrote:

>
>  I noticed that even without decoration, fast
> focus switches drive my CPU usage up, much more so than in other non-tiling
> window managers.  Running top gave me a surprising insight: it's not xmonad but
> the X server that consumes that many cpu cycles when focus switching.[...]

This matches my observations:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/12168


> At this point, I'm simply pondering what can be done about it, as one of the
> reason's I'm using xmonad is that I want a lightweight desktop environment.
> (When fast focus changes drive one of my cores to 50%, that's hardly
> lightweight.)

Wait till you make a quick traverse, start typing, and find bits of your 
input scattered among several terminals, including a root shell.

*shudder*


- Allen S. Rout