Bug#461106: gnome-panel starts consuming 75% or more of the CPU and becomes unresponsive

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

forwarded 461106 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521478
thanks

Hi,

Sergio wrote:
> Yes, I do, and now I can reproduce the bug, that may be related to a
> window_list applet added to a vertical panel.
> 
> I created a new user and login with him. The default desktop is shown in
> the attached file Screenshot.png.
> 
> Then I modified the properties of the bottom panel:
> 
> - Orientation: left
> - size: 30 pixel
> 
> Then seven gnome-terminal windows were opened and the gnome-panel become
> unresponsive and start consuming 100% CPU (with Xorg), as is shown in the
> attached file Screenshot-1.png.
> 
> If the size of the panel is hold at the default value of 24 pixel, then the
> icons of the windows are not shown in the window_list applet (dots are
> shown instead) and the bug is not triggered. So the bug may be related to
> the render of the icons of windows when several windows have to be listed.

This looks similar to GNOME #521478.
As we have gnome-panel 2.22.0 in experimental, could you please install it and
check whether this still happens with it?

Thanks

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