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NRK 22511c41d5 drw_text: improve performance when there's no match this was the last piece of the puzzle, the case where we can't find any font to draw the codepoint. in such cases, we use XftFontMatch() which is INSANELY slow. but that's not the real problem. the real problem was we were continuously trying to match the same thing over and over again. this patch introduces a small cache, which keeps track a couple codepoints for which we know we won't find any matches. with this, i can dump lots of emojies into dmenu where some of them don't have any matching font, and still not have dmenu lag insanely or FREEZE completely when scrolling up and down. this also improves startup time, which will of course depend on the system and all installed fonts; but on my system and test case i see the following startup time drop: before -> after 60ms -> 34ms		3 years ago
LICENSE	bump version to 5.1	3 years ago
Makefile	Makefile: just show the compiler output	7 years ago
README	removed libdc dependence	14 years ago
arg.h	arg.h: fixed argv checks order	9 years ago
config.def.h	config.def.h: style improvement, use color Scheme enum	9 years ago
config.mk	bump version to 5.1	3 years ago
dmenu.1	dmenu.1: document improved fastgrab behaviour from previous patch	6 years ago
dmenu.c	inputw: improve correctness and startup performance	3 years ago
dmenu_path	make dmenu_path script executable	6 years ago
dmenu_run	dmenu_run: Split cache logic to dmenu_path again	13 years ago
drw.c	drw_text: improve performance when there's no match	3 years ago
drw.h	introduce drw_fontset_getwidth_clamp()	3 years ago
stest.1	applied Martin Kühl's inverse matching flag to stest	12 years ago
stest.c	remove always true condition in if statement	4 years ago
util.c	die() on calloc failure	8 years ago
util.h	import new drw from libsl and minor fixes.	9 years ago

README

dmenu - dynamic menu
====================
dmenu is an efficient dynamic menu for X.


Requirements
------------
In order to build dmenu you need the Xlib header files.


Installation
------------
Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dmenu is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dmenu
(if necessary as root):

    make clean install


Running dmenu
-------------
See the man page for details.