Hi,
There are a lot of apps who consume cpu time in the background while I'm
not using them. Does anyone know a good way to incorporate automatic
process suspension upon unfocus to awesome?
For example, I have gmail open in a dedicated browser (e.g., I only use
firefox for this). When I unfocus f
Hi Sebastian,
I can propose a way to automatically suspend/unsuspend application
when it loses/regains its focus.
Please take a look at this snippet.
local signal = require("posix.signal")
awful.rules.rules = {
{ rule = { class = "Firefox" },
callback = function(c)
c:conn
I am sure this has all sorts of unintended consequences.
For instance, when you suspend an X application, it can't redraw the
screen. But there are definitely events that cause redraws without giving
focus to the application.
Also, often it isn't the top-level process that is chewing up the CPU,
The example from Aleksey works pretty well. For example, Slack for Linux
is just a resource hog as it constantly polls whether new messages have
arrived. Since it's a crappy implementation, the Linux scheduler cannot
do anything about it. But that little extension can do wonders!
However, I agree,
>Finally using the terminal pkill instead of signal.kill() would be nice,
> as it could send SIGSTOP to all child processes.
I think that the best solution would be exploiting control groups, as
Markus suggested. They can automatically account for all child
processes and you can limit CPU consump
