Created attachment 8940 htop showing xfce-notes-plugin New behavior as of 22-AUG-2019 over 100% continuously. see attachment xfce version 4.14 archlinux
Created attachment 8941 htop showing %CPU ranked
Are you sure that's notes-plugin and not the standalone app itself?
Created attachment 8953 htop filtered by 'note' showing ranked by %CPU
Don't know what the standalone app is. $ ls -lat /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ | grep note -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123348 Aug 11 16:33 xfce4-notes-plugin-1.8.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123036 Nov 9 2018 xfce4-notes-plugin-1.8.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Don't know what the standalone app is. see attachment for htop filtered by 'note' $ ls -lat /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ | grep note -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123348 Aug 11 16:33 xfce4-notes-plugin-1.8.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123036 Nov 9 2018 xfce4-notes-plugin-1.8.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
notes still misbehaving
Created attachment 8960 notes still misbehaving
There is bug 7106 also.
Per https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7106 purging /home/$USER/.config/xfce4/ helped greatly
(In reply to Larry Johnson from comment #9) > Per https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7106 purging > /home/$USER/.config/xfce4/ helped greatly Maybe this bug is a dup of 7106, can you please use a custom color and check if the cpu usage is affected again? If so, please attach $HOME/.config/xfce4/xfce4-notes.gtkrc and post the output of xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /plugins/notes -lv. There is a WIP[1] of porting this plugin to gtk3, if this is completed someday maybe this bug and 7106 can get fixed as a side effect. 1 - https://github.com/Skunnyk/xfce4-notes-plugin/commits/gtk3
I purged a large number of unused files (xfce4-notes.*) from /home/$USER/.config/xfce4/ and the high CPU usage has stopped as suggested in https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7106. I would consider this bus as remedied or closed. Thanks & cheers
Ok, reopen if this problem reappears.
It has reappeared. See attached. [--ljohnson{09:59:48}~]$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /plugins/notes -lv Channel "xfce4-panel" contains no properties. ----- [--ljohnson{10:00:10}~]$ ls -la .config/xfce4/ total 180 drwxr-xr-x 7 ljohnson users 86016 Aug 29 09:45 . drwxr-xr-x 116 ljohnson users 4096 Aug 28 13:19 .. drwx------ 2 ljohnson users 4096 Aug 28 12:38 desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 48 Aug 23 2017 helpers.rc -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 19 Mar 16 08:06 help.rc drwx------ 18 ljohnson users 36864 Aug 29 09:59 panel drwx------ 2 ljohnson users 4096 Jan 28 2017 terminal -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 281 Aug 29 09:15 xfce4-notes.gtkrc -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 281 Aug 28 09:53 xfce4-notes.gtkrc.4XF76Z -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 0 Aug 27 11:46 xfce4-notes.gtkrc.6IF26Z -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 281 Aug 28 14:06 xfce4-notes.gtkrc.MWSG7Z -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 138 Aug 27 08:01 xfce4-notes.rc -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 90 Aug 29 09:45 xfce4-screenshooter -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 464 Jun 2 11:00 xfce4-taskmanager.rc drwxr-xr-x 3 ljohnson users 4096 Jun 1 2015 xfconf drwx------ 2 ljohnson users 4096 Jun 1 2015 xfwm4
Created attachment 8968 htop high CPU xfce-notes
(In reply to Larry Johnson from comment #13) > It has reappeared. See attached. > -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 281 Aug 29 09:15 xfce4-notes.gtkrc > -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 281 Aug 28 09:53 xfce4-notes.gtkrc.4XF76Z > -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 0 Aug 27 11:46 xfce4-notes.gtkrc.6IF26Z > -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 281 Aug 28 14:06 xfce4-notes.gtkrc.MWSG7Z > -rw-r--r-- 1 ljohnson users 138 Aug 27 08:01 xfce4-notes.rc Please post the content of the files above (remove sensitive data if any).
Created attachment 8971 xfce4-notes.gtkrc
Done
Created attachment 8972 xfce4-notes.gtkrc.4XF76Z
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Unable to attach additional files
Created attachment 8973 zipped files
(In reply to Larry Johnson from comment #21) > Created attachment 8973 > zipped files Even with those files in place I couldn't reproduce the CPU spike, I also tried to set a custom background color and restart the system, no luck. My last shot: please try another gtk theme.
Duplicate of bug 7106 that has been unsolved since 2011!
Created attachment 9350 Screenshot runaway notes process At least once per day I have to kill this runaway notes process. Unseemly
Closing in favor of Bug 7106. Larry, please subscribe to that bug for further updates (please try another theme). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7106 ***