fix(qs,fluxo) performance fix for repaints

fluxo/config.toml

@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
 # strings. The Quickshell config (~/.config/quickshell/services/Sys.qml) parses
 # them and does its own formatting. The previous human-readable Waybar formats
 # are preserved in config.toml.waybar-bak.
+#
+# Quickshell only consumes cpu, mem, gpu, disk, net, sys and power from fluxo.
+# Everything else it gets natively — Quickshell.Services.Mpris, .Pipewire,
+# .UPower, .Notifications, Quickshell.Bluetooth — and Brightness.qml reads
+# sysfs directly. Those fluxo modules are therefore switched off below: left on,
+# they held a libpulse context, a BlueZ D-Bus poll every 2 s and an MPRIS
+# marquee ticker firing twice a second, all feeding a bar that does not exist.
 
 [general]
 menu_command = "fuzzel --dmenu --prompt \"$FLUXO_PROMPT\""
@@ -44,12 +51,18 @@ format = "{mount}|{used:.1}|{total:.1}"
 format = "{percentage}"
 
 [audio]
+# Quickshell.Services.Pipewire drives Audio.qml; leaving this on kept a
+# libpulse context and its callbacks alive for nothing.
+enabled = false
 format_sink_unmuted = "{name} {volume:>3}% <span size='large'>{icon}</span>"
 format_sink_muted = "{name} <span size='large'> {icon}</span>"
 format_source_unmuted = "{name} {volume:>3}% <span size='large'>{icon}</span>"
 format_source_muted = "{name} <span size='large'>{icon}</span>"
 
 [bt]
+# Quickshell.Bluetooth drives Bt.qml. This module polled BlueZ over D-Bus every
+# 2 seconds regardless.
+enabled = false
 format_plugin = "{alias} [{left}|{right}] {anc} <span size='large'>󰂰</span>"
 format_connected = "{alias} <span size='large'>󰂰</span>"
 format_disconnected = "Disconnected <span size='large'>󰂯</span>"
@@ -60,9 +73,14 @@ format_active = "<span size='large'>󰊖</span>"
 format_inactive = "<span size='large'></span>"
 
 [mpris]
+# Quickshell.Services.Mpris drives Media.qml, and MediaPill/MediaPopout do their
+# own eliding and scrolling. This module was the single most expensive thing in
+# the daemon: `scroll` woke a ticker every `scroll_speed` ms to advance a marquee
+# offset for a Waybar that is not running, and each tick drove the signaler.
+enabled = false
 format = "{artist} - {title}"
 max_length = 20
-scroll = true 
+scroll = true
 scroll_speed = 500
 scroll_separator = " /// "
 
@@ -81,10 +99,14 @@ enabled = false
 format = "{layout}"
 
 [backlight]
-enable = true
+# Was `enable = true` — not a key fluxo reads, so this section was silently
+# running on its default of enabled. Brightness.qml reads
+# /sys/class/backlight directly, so the D-Bus watcher here is redundant.
+enabled = false
 format = "{percentage}"
 
 [dnd]
-enabled = true
+# Notifs.qml owns do-not-disturb via Quickshell.Services.Notifications.
+enabled = false
 format_dnd = "<span size='large'>󰂛</span>"
 format_normal = "<span size='large'>󰂚</span>"

quickshell/bar/ActiveWindow.qml

@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ Item {
     readonly property string incomingTitle: mine && toplevel.title ? toplevel.title : "—"
     property string displayedTitle: "—"
 
+    // Which toplevel the landing transition last played for. The landing is a
+    // focus-change stamp, so it has to key off window identity rather than off
+    // the caption text — see commitTitle().
+    property var landedToplevel: null
+
     // The bar shrinks this when the three clusters would otherwise collide.
     property real maxWidth: 240
 
@@ -67,11 +72,28 @@ Item {
         }
     }
 
+    // Adopt the settled caption, and stamp it only when focus actually moved.
+    //
+    // The landing used to restart on any title change, which is not the same
+    // thing: plenty of windows rewrite their own title on a timer — a terminal
+    // running a task with a spinner or a percentage, a browser tab with a live
+    // clock — and each rewrite restarted seven overlapping animations totalling
+    // over half a second. At a title churning twice a second on a 240 Hz screen
+    // the bar never stopped animating, and repainting it that hard measured at
+    // roughly 18% of a CPU core with nothing else happening. Keying the stamp to
+    // window identity restores what the effect was described as doing.
     function commitTitle(): void {
-        if (root.displayedTitle === root.incomingTitle)
+        const focusMoved = root.toplevel !== root.landedToplevel;
+
+        if (root.displayedTitle !== root.incomingTitle)
+            root.displayedTitle = root.incomingTitle;
+        else if (!focusMoved)
             return;
-        root.displayedTitle = root.incomingTitle;
+
-        titleLanding.restart();
+        if (focusMoved) {
+            root.landedToplevel = root.toplevel;
+            titleLanding.restart();
+        }
     }
 
     // Browser tabs, terminals and editors can update titles several times in a
@@ -85,7 +107,17 @@ Item {
     }
 
     onIncomingTitleChanged: titleSettle.restart()
-    Component.onCompleted: displayedTitle = incomingTitle
+
+    // Focus can move to a window whose caption happens to match the outgoing
+    // one, which changes no title and so would otherwise never land.
+    onToplevelChanged: titleSettle.restart()
+
+    Component.onCompleted: {
+        displayedTitle = incomingTitle;
+        // Adopt the current window silently, so a config reload does not play a
+        // focus-change stamp for a focus that did not change.
+        landedToplevel = toplevel;
+    }
 
     // A quick crimson wipe under the title on focus change.
     Rectangle {

quickshell/bar/BarPill.qml

@@ -109,15 +109,20 @@ Item {
 
         // Track progress, shown until the pointer arrives and the hover rule
         // takes the band over.
+        //
+        // Deliberately untweened. MPRIS position is polled once a second, and a
+        // 480 ms ease on a 1 Hz input meant this rule was mid-animation roughly
+        // half of every second — about 115 animated frames per second on a
+        // 240 Hz screen, each one rebuilding this Skew's Shape geometry through
+        // the curve renderer and re-rendering the pill's layer textures with it.
+        // Stepping once per second costs 1 frame instead of 115, matches the rate
+        // the underlying data actually arrives at, and makes a seek land exactly
+        // where it was dropped instead of gliding there.
         Skew {
             height: parent.height
             width: parent.width * Math.max(0, Math.min(1, root.progress))
             color: Theme.accent
             visible: root.progress >= 0 && !root.hovered && !root.active
-
-            Behavior on width {
-                NumberAnimation { duration: 480; easing.type: Easing.OutQuad }
-            }
         }
 
         Skew {

quickshell/bar/MediaPill.qml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import QtQuick
 import QtQuick.Shapes
+import QtQuick.Window
 import Quickshell
 import "root:/config"
 import "root:/components"
@@ -126,35 +127,77 @@ BarPill {
 
         // Compact play-state equaliser. It moves only while audio is playing
         // and freezes into three quiet bars when paused.
+        //
+        // Sampled from a timer rather than tweened by an infinite
+        // NumberAnimation. DP-1 runs at 240 Hz, and a frame-synced animation
+        // here repainted the entire bar 240 times a second: this pill sits
+        // inside ancestors that use layer.enabled together with
+        // Shape.CurveRenderer, and the album art carries a MultiEffect pass, so
+        // every one of those frames re-rendered several layer textures. Measured
+        // on its own, this one animation cost about two thirds of a CPU core
+        // whenever anything was playing.
+        //
+        // The timer samples a sine, it does not step through arbitrary levels: a
+        // low tick rate only looks like the original if consecutive ticks stay
+        // near each other. Each bar keeps the eased breathing motion and the
+        // period it had before — the curve is just read 25 times a second
+        // instead of 240.
         Row {
+            id: eq
             anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
             spacing: 2
 
+            // Sampling interval — the one knob trading smoothness against cost.
+            // Frames are the whole expense: a full-bar repaint runs about 0.3% of
+            // a core (the bar spans 2544x40 on a 240 Hz output), so cost scales
+            // linearly with this rate. 16 ms holds 60 Hz, which is visually
+            // indistinguishable from the original frame-synced tween at a quarter
+            // of its ~75%.
+            readonly property int tickMs: 16
+            property int phase: 0
+
+            // Reproduces the original per-bar tween exactly, sampled instead of
+            // frame-synced. Each bar eased between two heights with its own pair
+            // of durations, so the three differed in both swing and period — the
+            // middle bar moved barely a pixel while the outer two ran in
+            // opposition. Giving all three the full swing, as a single symmetric
+            // sine would, is three times the motion and reads far busier than
+            // this meter is supposed to.
+            function level(i: int): real {
+                const lo = 4 + (i * 5) % 13;    // old first NumberAnimation `to`
+                const hi = 14 - (i * 4) % 9;    // old second NumberAnimation `to`
+                const d1 = 320 + i * 90;        // ...and their durations
+                const d2 = 280 + i * 70;
+
+                const t = (eq.phase * eq.tickMs) % (d1 + d2);
+                // Easing.InOutSine, which is what both halves used.
+                const ease = x => (1 - Math.cos(Math.PI * x)) / 2;
+
+                return t < d1
+                    ? hi + (lo - hi) * ease(t / d1)
+                    : lo + (hi - lo) * ease((t - d1) / d2);
+            }
+
+            Timer {
+                interval: eq.tickMs
+                running: Media.playing && eq.visible && (eq.Window.window?.visible ?? true)
+                repeat: true
+                onTriggered: eq.phase++
+                // Restart the cycle from its trough, so playback always begins
+                // from a settled meter rather than mid-swing.
+                onRunningChanged: if (!running) eq.phase = 0
+            }
+
             Repeater {
                 model: 3
 
                 Rectangle {
                     required property int index
                     width: 3
-                    height: 6
+                    height: Media.playing ? eq.level(index) : 6
                     anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
                     color: Media.playing ? Theme.primary : Theme.muted
 
-                    SequentialAnimation on height {
-                        running: Media.playing
-                        loops: Animation.Infinite
-                        NumberAnimation {
-                            to: 4 + (index * 5) % 13
-                            duration: 320 + index * 90
-                            easing.type: Easing.InOutSine
-                        }
-                        NumberAnimation {
-                            to: 14 - (index * 4) % 9
-                            duration: 280 + index * 70
-                            easing.type: Easing.InOutSine
-                        }
-                    }
-
                     Behavior on color {
                         ColorAnimation { duration: Theme.durBase }
                     }

quickshell/bar/Workspaces.qml

@@ -132,8 +132,13 @@ Item {
                     cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
                 }
 
+                // Hyprland evaluates IPC `dispatch` payloads as Lua now that the
+                // config is Lua (hyprland.lua rather than hyprland.conf), so the
+                // old `dispatch workspace 3` string is a Lua syntax error and the
+                // click silently does nothing. Dispatchers have to be called the
+                // same way lua/binds/workspaces.lua calls them.
                 TapHandler {
-                    onTapped: Hyprland.dispatch("workspace " + pip.wsId)
+                    onTapped: Hyprland.dispatch("hl.dsp.focus({workspace = " + pip.wsId + "})")
                 }
             }
         }

quickshell/components/Marquee.qml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Window
 import "root:/config"
 
 // Horizontally scrolling text that only moves when it actually overflows, and
@@ -18,6 +19,13 @@ Item {
 
     readonly property bool overflowing: label.implicitWidth > width + 1
 
+    // An Item inside an unmapped PopupWindow still reports itself visible, so a
+    // marquee in a closed popout would keep its infinite animation alive. That
+    // animation writes QML properties on every frame — at 240 Hz, three closed
+    // popout marquees are enough to keep the whole animation driver spinning and
+    // burn a fifth of a core with nothing on screen. Follow the window instead.
+    readonly property bool onScreen: Window.window?.visible ?? true
+
     clip: true
     implicitHeight: label.implicitHeight
     implicitWidth: label.implicitWidth
@@ -38,7 +46,7 @@ Item {
 
     SequentialAnimation {
         id: scroll
-        running: root.running && root.overflowing && root.visible
+        running: root.running && root.overflowing && root.visible && root.onScreen
         loops: Animation.Infinite
 
         PauseAnimation { duration: root.pause }

quickshell/services/Sys.qml

@@ -7,12 +7,18 @@ import Quickshell.Io
 // Hardware telemetry, sourced from the user's `fluxo` daemon. fluxo's hardware
 // modules are configured to emit raw pipe-delimited values (see
 // ~/.config/fluxo/config.toml); everything here is parsing and formatting.
+//
+// Fed by a single long-lived `fluxo stream` subscription. This used to be two
+// Timers driving seven separate `Process` objects, each forking a `fluxo
+// <module>` client — five forks every 2 s plus two more every 20 s, so about
+// 2.5 process spawns a second, each one exec'ing and dynamically linking a 13 MB
+// binary to read a number the daemon already had in memory, and each metric
+// still up to one interval stale. `fluxo stream` keeps one connection open and
+// pushes a JSON line only when a module's output actually changes: no forks, and
+// values land as soon as the daemon has them.
 Singleton {
     id: root
 
-    // Poll interval. The bar reads these continuously, so keep it modest.
-    property int interval: 2000
-
     // ------------------------------------------------------------------ cpu
     property real cpuUsage: 0
     property real cpuTemp: 0
@@ -56,157 +62,112 @@ Singleton {
     // UPower drives the battery UI; fluxo supplies the TLP/AC detail line.
     property string powerDetail: ""
 
-    // fluxo wraps values in zero-width spaces for Waybar's benefit.
+    // The one-shot `fluxo <module>` client wraps text in zero-width spaces so
+    // Waybar's proportional font stops reflowing. The stream deliberately does
+    // not, but stripping them costs nothing and keeps this parser usable against
+    // either source.
     function _clean(s: string): string {
         return (s || "").replace(/​/g, "").trim();
     }
 
-    function _fields(json: string): var {
-        try {
-            const o = JSON.parse(json);
-            return { parts: root._clean(o.text).split("|"), obj: o };
-        } catch (e) {
-            return null;
-        }
-    }
-
     function _num(v): real {
         const n = parseFloat(v);
         return isNaN(n) ? 0 : n;
     }
 
-    Timer {
+    // ------------------------------------------------------------------ feed
-        interval: root.interval
+    // Modules fluxo pushes to us. `disk` streams the default mount, which fluxo
+    // resolves to "/" (see `signaler_default_args` in its registry).
+    readonly property var modules: ["cpu", "mem", "gpu", "net", "sys", "disk", "power"]
+
+    // One line of the stream: {"module":"cpu","text":"7.4|41.0","tooltip":...}.
+    function _ingest(line: string): void {
+        let ev;
+        try {
+            ev = JSON.parse(line);
+        } catch (e) {
+            return;
+        }
+        if (!ev || !ev.module)
+            return;
+
+        const parts = root._clean(ev.text).split("|");
+        const tip = ev.tooltip || "";
+
+        switch (ev.module) {
+        case "cpu":
+            root.cpuUsage = root._num(parts[0]);
+            root.cpuTemp = root._num(parts[1]);
+            root.cpuModel = tip;
+            break;
+        case "mem":
+            root.memUsed = root._num(parts[0]);
+            root.memTotal = root._num(parts[1]);
+            break;
+        case "gpu":
+            // fluxo emits a single non-numeric field ("No GPU") when it cannot
+            // find one, so field count is the availability test.
+            if (parts.length < 4) {
+                root.gpuAvailable = false;
+                break;
+            }
+            root.gpuAvailable = true;
+            root.gpuUsage = root._num(parts[0]);
+            root.gpuVramUsed = root._num(parts[1]);
+            root.gpuVramTotal = root._num(parts[2]);
+            root.gpuTemp = root._num(parts[3]);
+            const gm = /Model:\s*(.+)/.exec(tip);
+            if (gm)
+                root.gpuModel = gm[1];
+            break;
+        case "net":
+            root.netInterface = parts[0] || "";
+            root.netIp = parts[1] || "";
+            root.netRx = root._num(parts[2]);
+            root.netTx = root._num(parts[3]);
+            break;
+        case "sys":
+            root.uptime = parts[0] || "";
+            root.load1 = root._num(parts[1]);
+            root.load5 = root._num(parts[2]);
+            root.load15 = root._num(parts[3]);
+            const pm = /Processes:\s*(\d+)/.exec(tip);
+            if (pm)
+                root.procs = parseInt(pm[1]);
+            break;
+        case "disk":
+            root.diskUsed = root._num(parts[1]);
+            root.diskTotal = root._num(parts[2]);
+            root.diskPercent = ev.percentage || 0;
+            const fm = /Free:\s*(\S+)/.exec(tip);
+            root.diskFree = fm ? fm[1] : "";
+            break;
+        case "power":
+            root.powerDetail = tip;
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    Process {
+        id: source
+        command: ["fluxo", "stream"].concat(root.modules)
         running: true
-        repeat: true
+
-        triggeredOnStart: true
+        stdout: SplitParser {
-        onTriggered: {
+            onRead: data => root._ingest(data)
-            cpuReader.running = true;
-            memReader.running = true;
-            gpuReader.running = true;
-            netReader.running = true;
-            sysReader.running = true;
         }
+
+        // The daemon restarting (or not being up yet at login) drops us. Retry
+        // on a slow cadence: this is a reconnect, not a poll, so it only ever
+        // fires while the stream is actually down.
+        onExited: retry.restart()
     }
 
-    // Disk and battery move slowly; poll them a tenth as often.
     Timer {
-        interval: root.interval * 10
+        id: retry
-        running: true
+        interval: 2000
-        repeat: true
+        repeat: false
-        triggeredOnStart: true
+        onTriggered: source.running = true
-        onTriggered: {
-            diskReader.running = true;
-            powerReader.running = true;
-        }
-    }
-
-    Process {
-        id: cpuReader
-        command: ["fluxo", "cpu"]
-        stdout: StdioCollector {
-            onStreamFinished: {
-                const f = root._fields(text);
-                if (!f) return;
-                root.cpuUsage = root._num(f.parts[0]);
-                root.cpuTemp = root._num(f.parts[1]);
-                root.cpuModel = f.obj.tooltip || "";
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    Process {
-        id: memReader
-        command: ["fluxo", "mem"]
-        stdout: StdioCollector {
-            onStreamFinished: {
-                const f = root._fields(text);
-                if (!f) return;
-                root.memUsed = root._num(f.parts[0]);
-                root.memTotal = root._num(f.parts[1]);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    Process {
-        id: gpuReader
-        command: ["fluxo", "gpu"]
-        stdout: StdioCollector {
-            onStreamFinished: {
-                const f = root._fields(text);
-                if (!f || f.parts.length < 4) {
-                    root.gpuAvailable = false;
-                    return;
-                }
-                root.gpuAvailable = true;
-                root.gpuUsage = root._num(f.parts[0]);
-                root.gpuVramUsed = root._num(f.parts[1]);
-                root.gpuVramTotal = root._num(f.parts[2]);
-                root.gpuTemp = root._num(f.parts[3]);
-                const m = /Model:\s*(.+)/.exec(f.obj.tooltip || "");
-                if (m) root.gpuModel = m[1];
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    Process {
-        id: diskReader
-        command: ["fluxo", "disk", "/"]
-        stdout: StdioCollector {
-            onStreamFinished: {
-                const f = root._fields(text);
-                if (!f) return;
-                root.diskUsed = root._num(f.parts[1]);
-                root.diskTotal = root._num(f.parts[2]);
-                root.diskPercent = f.obj.percentage || 0;
-                const m = /Free:\s*(\S+)/.exec(f.obj.tooltip || "");
-                root.diskFree = m ? m[1] : "";
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    Process {
-        id: netReader
-        command: ["fluxo", "net"]
-        stdout: StdioCollector {
-            onStreamFinished: {
-                const f = root._fields(text);
-                if (!f) return;
-                root.netInterface = f.parts[0] || "";
-                root.netIp = f.parts[1] || "";
-                root.netRx = root._num(f.parts[2]);
-                root.netTx = root._num(f.parts[3]);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    Process {
-        id: sysReader
-        command: ["fluxo", "sys"]
-        stdout: StdioCollector {
-            onStreamFinished: {
-                const f = root._fields(text);
-                if (!f) return;
-                root.uptime = f.parts[0] || "";
-                root.load1 = root._num(f.parts[1]);
-                root.load5 = root._num(f.parts[2]);
-                root.load15 = root._num(f.parts[3]);
-                const m = /Processes:\s*(\d+)/.exec(f.obj.tooltip || "");
-                if (m) root.procs = parseInt(m[1]);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    Process {
-        id: powerReader
-        command: ["fluxo", "power"]
-        stdout: StdioCollector {
-            onStreamFinished: {
-                try {
-                    root.powerDetail = JSON.parse(text).tooltip || "";
-                } catch (e) {}
-            }
-        }
     }
 
     // ------------------------------------------------------------ formatting