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My issue is that waking my laptop from sleep with a second monitor plugged in and Safari open with ~100 tabs causes several minutes of pegged CPU usage before t

My issue is that waking my laptop from sleep with a second monitor plugged in and Safari open with ~100 tabs causes several minutes of pegged CPU usage before the computer becomes usable again. MacOS seems full of these hidden gotcha algorithms where O[n] behavior transitions to O[e^n] behavior when n exceeds some threshold. The Finder is the worst offender but perhaps the window manager too when multiple monitors are involved.

stepanhruda 4y ago
Is this on a Mac with an M1 chip?
- dreamcompiler 4y ago
  Not in my case. 2020 Intel.
  - stepanhruda 4y ago
    From what I have seen Apple chips have made significant improvements in the external display experience.
tiku 4y ago
My problem is that the windows will all default back to the laptop monitor after sleep.
- bfdm 4y ago
  Yea this is also a big problem I have. I can't stand having to reorganize my windows when I go back and forth from desk with monitor to laptop. I want the window manager to remember where I had the window and move it back when I plug in. Now I just mirror and have a bigger monitor becaused I can't deal with that horseshit.
  - NateEag 4y ago
    FWIW, I work around OS X's terrible inability to position windows correctly when adding / removing monitors with Hammerspoon, and have done for years: https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/ced1819f7f6ab8bd6f8e37599f1e50e3b2648fb9/src/.hammerspoon/init.lua#L200 https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/ced1819f7f6ab8bd6f8... I haven't really thought about it in years, and I'm so glad I took the time to write this logic up.
artificialLimbs 4y ago
*bookmarks enter the conversation
- dicknuckle 4y ago
  Or just use Firefox. I've been a Chrome-ish user for decades, bouncing from Chrome to Vivaldi and then finally Opera (with a brief stint on Edge after it switched to Chromium). Firefox is just stable, but I mainly switched for Container Tabs at work so I can log into AWS to access different customers at the same time.

stepanhruda 4y ago

Is this on a Mac with an M1 chip?

dreamcompiler 4y ago
Not in my case. 2020 Intel.
- stepanhruda 4y ago
  From what I have seen Apple chips have made significant improvements in the external display experience.

tiku 4y ago

My problem is that the windows will all default back to the laptop monitor after sleep.

bfdm 4y ago
Yea this is also a big problem I have. I can't stand having to reorganize my windows when I go back and forth from desk with monitor to laptop. I want the window manager to remember where I had the window and move it back when I plug in. Now I just mirror and have a bigger monitor becaused I can't deal with that horseshit.
- NateEag 4y ago
  FWIW, I work around OS X's terrible inability to position windows correctly when adding / removing monitors with Hammerspoon, and have done for years: https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/ced1819f7f6ab8bd6f8e37599f1e50e3b2648fb9/src/.hammerspoon/init.lua#L200 https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/ced1819f7f6ab8bd6f8... I haven't really thought about it in years, and I'm so glad I took the time to write this logic up.

artificialLimbs 4y ago

*bookmarks enter the conversation

dicknuckle 4y ago
Or just use Firefox. I've been a Chrome-ish user for decades, bouncing from Chrome to Vivaldi and then finally Opera (with a brief stint on Edge after it switched to Chromium). Firefox is just stable, but I mainly switched for Container Tabs at work so I can log into AWS to access different customers at the same time.