xmobar - a minimalistic status bar

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2020-02-22	Timer coalescing: gracefully uncoalesce slow timers	Tomas Janousek
	The first implementation assumed all timers (monitors) are fast and frequent (which happens to be the case in my configuration). This meant that a single on-line weather monitor could block the entire xmobar instance for a long time due to the refresh pausing (meant to reduce power consumption). This commit attempts to fix that by limiting the refresh pause time and using the old periodic sleep method for these slow timers (monitors).
2020-02-22	Implement timer coalescing (noticeably less CPU/power usage)	Tomas Janousek
	xmobar currently runs every monitor in its own thread. Monitors that do periodic updates simply sleep and loop. This unfortunately leads to these threads coming out of sync, and xmobar ends up waking up and redrawing for every periodic monitor. In my case, that is 7 times per second, which is enough for xmobar to be at the top of "top" with more than 1% CPU usage, and to have a noticeable impact on battery life. This commit adds a central timer coordination thread which makes sure that periodic updates happen together and that we only redraw once they're all done. Together with PR #409, I managed to lower the idle power draw of my laptop from 4W to 3W.