I just upgraded to rc2 and get the same behaviour now. did you already
file a bug or find a workaround?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:15 PM, S?lvi P?ll ?sgeirsson <solvip at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I posted this by accident in the X Windows discussion group, I think it 
> should rather live here.
> Anyways..
>
> The problem seems to be that whenever I type in a series of characters 
> quickly(<15 chars) into a gnome application, such as pidgin, gnome-terminal 
> or firefox, the program in question becomes unresponsive and hangs for a few 
> seconds.
> There's no noticable increase in CPU activity whatsoever.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> Switch workspaces to find an open firefox.
> Hit C-t to open a new tab and type in opensolaris.org.
> Watch application hang for a second or two midway through the input.
>
> Have a conversation in pidgin.
> Type a few messages quickly.
> Watch pidgin hang for a few seconds.
>
> Open up GNOME's keyboard preferences utility and increase the key repeat 
> speed.
> Then move the cursor to the test field and hold down a key.
> After a few repeats, the applet hangs, along with rest of gnome, usually 
> frees up again
> after <10 seconds.
>
> The programs in question don't lose any input, it's more like they 'hang' on 
> displaying the input.
> This does not happen in xterm or emacs.
>
> I think my issue might be related to this post(not the bug report itself, but 
> the comment on it)
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2815#c22
>
> I would appreciate any help or directions on how to track this down.
>
> Thanks,
> Solvi Pall A.
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