I've just upgraded to Raring and noticed that the problem appears to be even worse now. It happens whenever I try to close or minimise Thunderbird. If I go to the ibus keyboard icon in the system tray and click on it, the drop down menu is in a state of constant flickering.
I did some experiments and noticed that killing the usr/share/ibus/ui/gtk/main.py python script process doesn't help. Thunderbird keeps using 100% cpu. Also, taking it one step further and killing the ibus process also doesn't help. Thunderbird keeps using 100% cpu. I conclude from this that ibus is probably not the root cause of this problem. It's probably a Thunderbird/compiz incompatibility that is somehow causing ibus to refresh itself continuously. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ibus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1162008 Title: /usr/share/ibus/ui/gtk/main.py blocks at 100% when applications are minimised Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: New Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project: New Status in “ibus” package in Ubuntu: New 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/ibus/ui/gtk/main.py 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. [1] http://mypace75.blog92.fc2.com/blog-entry-767.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/1162008/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
