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. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- A computer, to print out a fact Will divide, multiply, and subtract. But this output can be No more than debris, If the input was short of exact.
