[Bug 1173849] Re: Some events cause xfdesktop to hang with high cpu usage and eating memory

2014-03-20 Thread Thaddäus Tintenfisch
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Trusty Tahr. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for

[Bug 1173849] Re: Some events cause xfdesktop to hang with high cpu usage and eating memory

2013-10-29 Thread Ronald
I linked the upstream bugreport (I was under the impression this was already the case, hence I was not mentioning my fix here). Thank you Teresa e Junior for alleviating that. Upstream has created a patch: - stable: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10138#c5 - upstream:

[Bug 1173849] Re: Some events cause xfdesktop to hang with high cpu usage and eating memory

2013-09-09 Thread Teresa e Junior
Thank you, Ronald, for posting the solution on the Xfce Bugzilla. For those who are suffering from the same problem, just like I was, edit the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and be sure to set XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR to a small directory, since right clicking on the desktop will scan this directory. --

[Bug 1173849] Re: Some events cause xfdesktop to hang with high cpu usage and eating memory

2013-06-10 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: xfdesktop4 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173849 Title:

[Bug 1173849] Re: Some events cause xfdesktop to hang with high cpu usage and eating memory

2013-06-10 Thread jimwg
Ditto. I always thought it was just me even though I reported this around almost a year ago. Just right-clicking for desktop not only kills the conceptual menu but hikes the cpu wild hot, forget even activating the fixed desktop slideshow feature which locks the cpu to run high and hot even if

[Bug 1173849] Re: Some events cause xfdesktop to hang with high cpu usage and eating memory

2013-06-10 Thread Ronald
I reported this bug directly upstream as well (and there are some candidates for duplicates there as well): https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10138 Since there was (apparently) no response on this one. Upstream is currently filled with bugs like this. I read somewhere that xfdesktop is

[Bug 1173849] Re: Some events cause xfdesktop to hang with high cpu usage and eating memory

2013-06-10 Thread Ronald
Aside from my question above, I have a few more notes: First, I found a somewhat related debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636479 But the mentioned fix does not work for me. Second, once xfdesktop is done traversing trough all my documents (which is a lot, esp on a

[Bug 1173849] Re: Some events cause xfdesktop to hang with high cpu usage and eating memory

2013-05-10 Thread Ronald
WIth lsof, I found out that thunar starts traversing the entire home directory of this system. E.g. xfdesktop 5890 gebruiker 20r DIR8,3 4096 787278 /home/gebruiker/Documenten/Ronald/Drakan/Mountain World/Intro Level xfdesktop 5890 gebruiker 21r REG8,337232