diff -Nru xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/changelog xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/changelog
--- xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/changelog	2012-02-14 10:24:46.000000000 +0100
+++ xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/changelog	2012-05-22 13:41:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+xsettings-kde (0.12.3-0ubuntu2.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low
+
+  * Add kubuntu_busy_wait.patch removing busy waiting for events, which is
+    more elegantly hidden away in XNextEvent. This removes xsettings from
+    powertop listing pretty much as it is now in fact only doing stuff when
+    there is stuff to be done. (LP: #1002811)
+
+ -- Harald Sitter <apachelogger@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 22 May 2012 13:40:29 +0200
+
 xsettings-kde (0.12.3-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low
 
   * Fix kubuntu_gtktheme.patch
diff -Nru xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/patches/kubuntu_busy_wait.patch xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/patches/kubuntu_busy_wait.patch
--- xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/patches/kubuntu_busy_wait.patch	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/patches/kubuntu_busy_wait.patch	2012-05-22 13:40:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From: Harald Sitter <apachelogger@ubuntu.com>
+Subject: Remove pointless sleep()
+ The IM support patch from [1], imported into Mageia in [2] adds a
+ conditional sleep() call when the infinite loop runs into an empty
+ event queue which is bound to happen quite a few times.
+ .
+ This introduces pointless code and pointless wake ups as the used
+ XNextEvent function blocks on an empty queue anyway [3], thus
+ rendering the manual sleep() call superfluous.
+ .
+ [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727822
+ [2] http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft?view=revision&revision=2011
+ [3] http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/event-handling/manipulating-event-queue/XNextEvent.html
+
+Index: xsettings-kde-0.12.3/xsettings-kde.c
+===================================================================
+--- xsettings-kde-0.12.3.orig/xsettings-kde.c	2012-05-22 00:01:21.000000000 +0200
++++ xsettings-kde-0.12.3/xsettings-kde.c	2012-05-22 00:02:25.209293378 +0200
+@@ -529,11 +529,7 @@
+     int i;
+ 
+     while (1) {
+-  if (!XPending(xev->display)) {
+-        sleep(2);
+-        continue;
+-    }
+-        XNextEvent (xev->display, &xevent);
++	XNextEvent (xev->display, &xevent);
+ 
+ 	for (i = 0 ; i < max_display ; i++) {
+ 	    if (xsettings_manager_process_event (managers[i], &xevent))
diff -Nru xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/patches/series xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/patches/series
--- xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/patches/series	2012-02-10 13:01:07.000000000 +0100
+++ xsettings-kde-0.12.3/debian/patches/series	2012-05-22 13:40:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 kubuntu_gtktheme.patch
 kubuntu_kde4_dir.patch
+kubuntu_busy_wait.patch