[xmonad] XMonad avoidStruts really slow

[adam vogt]

Hi Svein,

Does the attached patch address your issue? It vaguely does what
Joachim suggested.


Cheers,
Adam

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Joachim Breitner
<mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> Dear Svein,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 25.04.2013, 15:49 +0100 schrieb Svein Ove Aas:
>
>> I've had some speed issues with XMonad and Chrome lately, which I
>> eventually tracked to avoidStruts. (And Chrome, but never mind that.)
>>
>>
>> I think the problem is probably that ManageDocks.calcGap recalculates
>> the gap every time you switch windows, and not for instance every time
>> a new window is created.. but that's as much as I've managed to figure
>> out.
>>
>>
>> Things work pretty well if I just swap avoidStruts for a
>> statically-configured 16-pixel gap, so I'm going to leave it at this
>> for now, in hopes that the fix will be immediately obvious to you. I
>> might give it a shot if you don't have time, though.
>
> thanks for spotting the issue!
>
> It’s been a while since I hacked on xmonad, and I don’t see an immediate
> fix. Some way to approach it would be to extend the xmonad core so that
> the result of getStrut is stored along with the window. Another way
> would be to extend the datatype of the AvoidStruts to remember some
> data. But what? The gap? The strut of each window? Only on the current
> workspace or everywhere?
>
> I suggest you take this discussion on the xmonad mailing list, which I
> have CCed, and maybe you can come up with a fix!
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
>
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