Comment 16 for bug 376840

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote : Re: [Bug 376840] Re: Volume notification pops up and never go off using 100% cpu

Am Montag, den 26.10.2009, 17:27 +0000 schrieb Motin:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 367049 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367049
>
> I realized that one trigger to this was my hardware! I run a Dell XPS M1330
> and the media buttons seems to be activated by the heat or pressure of the
> LCD when the lid is closed! That means that if I close the lid for a couple
> of minutes, the lid will spam X with these events. I guess it has always
> been so (when having media shortcuts active - which has not been too often
> because of frequent breakages of these assignments between updates), but
> only with the notify-osd has it become a CPU intensive issue which queues up
> and imposes this annoying issue.

 There's already a branch available, addressing a part of the issue.
It's the first part of the solution to the described issue. Have a look
here...

        https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~macslow/notify-osd/conditional-bubble-refresh/+merge/13545

... if you are curious and want to try it yourself. Unfortunately this
didn't make it in for Karmic final, but will likely be made available as
a SRU.

Best regards ...

Mirco