I also get this with Pidgin. It freezes my system for about 30 seconds. It will even freeze things like window-closing animations, such as the usual shrinking rectanges, which leads me to think its OSD rather than something Pidgin-specific.
I'm fully up to date on Ubuntu and its recommended updates. $ uname -a Linux joelparkerhenderson 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux -- OSD hangs up applications leading to them greying out https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347444 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
