Configurable polling? about clipmenu

[cdown]

1 second was chosen as a balance between catching everything (if you copy two things within 1 second, probably the first one was a mistake) and keeping wakeups low.

If you can convince me that there's some legitimate reason to change it, then sure. I'm not sure what that would be, though.

[kaihendry]

Isn't there an inotifywait equivalent for clipboard changes? That would be the sane way forward. :)

[cdown]

If you think the X spec is sane and would include such a thing, you'd be sadly mistaken. As far as I know the X clipboard provides no notify interface (which would be required for that), hence the sleep.

[kingcody]

Well my personal use case was that I needed/wanted to reduce the sleep to .5 since I was copying and switching windows pretty quickly with key bindings and several times my selection hadn't made it to /tmp yet. Not a huge deal, but @ .5 it hasn't happened since. Obviously that would be too much for some people; hence, the configuration (with a default of 1).

[cdown]

Let me do some profiling and see what the performance impact of reducing the sleep would be.

[kingcody]

@cdown thanks