Re: Minimizing cygwin/xfree86 under NT 4.0 with KDE auto-hide taskbar active consumes CPU resources

[Steve Stone <StoneS at esi dot com>]

The xfree version is
XFree86-xserv XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-10.tar.bz2 0

The KDE is 1.1.2 (heh, heh, heh)
Linux is redhat 2.2.16-3

So then I tried it on one of the new boxes with KDE 3.0.0-10 and redhat
2.4.18-5

Here what I get is a burst of NT activity (75% cpu) about every 4 seconds
for one second.  So does appear to be KDE related and requires the KDE
taskbar to be docked at the top and to have the shortest delay possible
(zero in the new KDE).  Seems like this is a KDE thingie and pretty low
priority too but I will post over there in case anybody is interested.

Thanks for your help!  (Sorry that outlook seems to be forcing the post to a
new thread)

Steve Stone

Harold wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> I am logging into a remote Mandrake Linux 8.2 
> machine with KDE 3.0.2. My Windows 2000 machine 
> is running XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-10. I cannot 
> duplicate the behavior that you describe.
>
> Please run, from a Cygwin bash prompt:
> cat /etc/setup/installed.db | grep XFree86-xserv
> 
> Send the results of the above command in to the 
> mailing list so that we know what version of the
> Cygwin/XFree86 X Server you are running.
>
> Also, please tell us what version of KDE you are 
> running. I now suspect that this may have been a 
> problem/bug in versions of KDE prior to at least 
> 3.0.2. You may find that the problem goes away by
> updating KDE on your Linux machine.
>
> Harold