The bug is reported here: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=11 The CPU usage grows with the time, which could explain why many people don't see this effect.

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, flipser1336@web.de wrote:

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Von: "Chengqi(Lars) Song"

xmobar occasionally takes up high cpu usage.

You have to deactivate Xft.

I use Xft with xmobar, and I’ve never noticed high CPU usage because of it. _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

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