timer-applet consumes too much CPU time after preset time has counted down

[Detlef Lechner]

Binary package hint: timer-applet

my timer-applet consumes too much CPU time after the preset time has ended. The CPU processing time then jumps to 20% on a computer of the Centrino class.
I expect hat timer -applet will not consume much more CPU processing time during this operation phase because it has not much to accomplish.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: timer-applet 2.1.2-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 23 17:08:03 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: timer-applet

[Kenny Meyer (knny-myer)]

Thanks for making Timer-Applet better by reporting this issue.

This is a known issue, and it is due to the pulsing panel icon. You can deactivate the pulsing panel icon by updating to Timer Applet 2.2b1.

You can download the .deb here, supposing you have a 32-bit processor:
http://launchpad.net/timer-applet/2.2/2.2b1/+download/timer-applet_2.2beta1_i386.deb

Otherwise, there's the 64-bit version:
http://launchpad.net/timer-applet/2.2/2.2b1/+download/timer-applet_2.2beta1_amd64.deb

Please, report here if this is not working for you.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Marking as fix released upstream, in progress for Ubuntu