About your test case: 1. It uses threads with incorrect locking, see attached patch to fix it;
2. In my system, X is not frozen, just becomes very slow. But the program is asking for trouble by continually updating the status icon in a while True: loop without even a pause for breath between each loop; 3. I am actually able to kill the program with a simple Ctrl-C, evidencing that X is not completely frozen. So perhaps this is just a performance issue wrt gtk status icons. I see no bug here, just a denial of service. Or we could consider a gtk bug for momentarily freezing an entire X session while a status icon is being updated. ** Attachment added: "test case with thread safety fixed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26244131/p.diff -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to pygtk in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
