[solved] zsh and awesome

andre.ramaciotti · 2008-10-25 12:16:25

I'm running awesome v3.0 using zsh as my shell. The problem is that, by default, zsh runs background apps with their nice set to 5.

I've already set no_bg_nice on both ~/.zprofile and ~/.zshrc, but it didn't solve the problem. Does anyone have any idea of what I can do?

Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2008-10-26 13:19:21)

andre.ramaciotti · 2008-10-26 13:18:59

I solved the problem. I'll post the solution as someone may have the same problem:

Now I start X with 'SHELL=/bin/sh startx', of course, I made an alias to it. It'll solve the problem of having the nice of your apps set to 5 by default, but it'll create a new problem: when you start any terminal on X, it'll be using sh and not zsh.

To solve this new problem, change your ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua and put "SHELL=/bin/zsh" before the command you use to run the terminal.

-- terminal = "urxvtc"
terminal = "SHELL=/bin/zsh urxvtc"

heleos · 2008-10-26 15:25:44

Dumb question: What's the downside to background apps having nice set to 5?

andre.ramaciotti · 2008-10-26 15:28:56

Well, what is called background apps here are apps like firefox, liferea, emesene... The problem is that sometimes they feel a little sluggish because of that.

creslin · 2008-10-26 16:13:15

I'm just wondering.. in your original situation, what processes had niceness<5 besides system processes?

Last edited by creslin (2008-10-26 16:16:02)

andre.ramaciotti · 2008-10-26 16:41:53

my ~/.xinit first runs '~/.bin/start.sh' and then 'exec awesome' (e.g. conky is on ~/.bin/start.sh, so it runs with niceness = 0).

The problem was with apps that I started from awesome.

creslin · 2008-10-26 17:04:27

Ah your autostart script, of course.. I couldn't think of what would still be running at niceness=0. I knew I was missing something.

ST.x · 2008-11-17 15:29:05

andre.ramaciotti wrote:

I solved the problem. I'll post the solution as someone may have the same problem:
Now I start X with 'SHELL=/bin/sh startx', of course, I made an alias to it. It'll solve the problem of having the nice of your apps set to 5 by default, but it'll create a new problem: when you start any terminal on X, it'll be using sh and not zsh.
To solve this new problem, change your ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua and put "SHELL=/bin/zsh" before the command you use to run the terminal.
-- terminal = "urxvtc"
terminal = "SHELL=/bin/zsh urxvtc"

Just a question, because I just saw the same thing. So by using 'SHELL=/bin/sh startx' you are starting X with sh not zsh - which is in to not have app nice set to 5 by default. Okay so you just made an alias for startx as SHELL=/bin/sh startx ? and did the other trick in the rc.lua as well.

thanks

Last edited by ST.x (2008-11-17 15:30:27)

andre.ramaciotti · 2008-11-17 15:39:21

Yes, I made an alias for startx. In my ~/.zshrc I put this line:

alias startx='SHELL=/bin/sh startx'

And I changed ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua. On the beginning of the file there's a variable named "terminal". Just change its contents to:

terminal = "SHELL=/bin/zsh urxvtc"

and it should work fine. Notice that I use urxvtc as my terminal, change it to the one you use.

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