Richard, I use Kile on a regular basis, but I never experienced that. Or rather, every once in a while I experience a general X-related lockdown---CPU at 100%, no graphic interaction possible, no switching to virtual terminal allowed either (presumably because X steals all keyboard input). My only way out is ssh-ing from another computer and restarting the whole box. I wonder if it is related, though. Are you using nvidia proprietary drivers? The consensus on the archlinux boards seems to point at them.
Cheers, Stefano On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I thought it would be worth mentioning that I've just seen, twice, a kind of > slowness in Kile (which is a KDE and therefore Qt-based LaTeX editor) very > similar to what has been reported here, now and again, as a slowness in LyX. > All of a sudden, and for reasons I don't understand, Kile ground to a near > halt, with top showing XOrg consuming 100% or more CPU. (Fortunately, there > are four processors!) Closing it and restarting it solved the problem. > > Richard > -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org