/usr/share/ibus/ui/gtk/main.py blocks at 100% when applications are minimised
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Thunderbird |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
ibus (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When I minimise applications such as thunderbird and firefox, they frequently sit in the unity launcher with the application icon and arrow flickering and my computer becomes frozen for up to 5 mins. Checking top shows me that compiz and a python script are both having a fight with python at 100%. Investigating further shows me that the python script causing the problem is /usr/share/
This is most annoying, and I have now encountered the same problem on two separate computers running Quantal with different graphics cards. I have ibus and ibus-anthy installed on both of them.
In case it is useful, I found an old thread reporting a similar problem in 2010 with Ubuntu 10.10 [1]. Then the solution appears to have been to upgrade to the latest version of ibus (1.3 at the time). I don't know if upgrading to the latest development release would solve the problem. If a launchpad PPA for a bleeding edge version of ibus was available for Quantal, I'd be happy to test it.
Cheers.
I've attached a screenshot of top showing thunderbird and the ibus python script hamming a couple of processors in tandem, with the flashing unity panel and ibus-daemon not far behind. It's most annoying and, when I have my virtual machine on too, my can't cope any longer and freezes!
Note that I also have an encrypted home directory, so this could be related to bug #927515 too. Either way, I would be grateful if someone could investigate.