urxvt and powertop

[Marc Lehmann]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 07:35:30PM +0200, giggz <giggzounet at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an eeepc with debian stable. I'm using urxvt. On eeepc we have to
> care of the power consumption. so I have started powertop under root in
> my urxvt. Surprisingly urxvtd is the programm which does the mode wake
> up.

Obviously, if you run powertop inside urxvt, it will wake urxvt up when it
does output (and so does any other terminal).

In addition, urxvt will wake up at least once/minute (libev timejump
detection).

Otherwise, urxvt (and urxvtd) only wake up when there is an external
event, or you use something else that wakes up (for example, for the
blinking cursor, urxvt has to wake up regularly) - there are no unnecessary
wakeups with (standard) urxvt.

If you have too many wake-ups, make sure nothing else wakes up urxvt (e.g.
some kind of clipboard program), and you don't use anything that obviously
involves a timer (such as a blinking cursor).

Anything else stands in direct relation to user events (clicking, focus
changes, selection and so on).

> With lxterminal I don't have this behaviour.

Maybe you should explain your behaviour in more detail.

> Is there a solution to this problem ?

Not sure what your problem is, or there even is one - you need to be more
specific.

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