Re: kwin using 100% CPU

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Saturday 21 April 2012 16:05:56 Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote:
> On Saturday 21 April 2012 05:42:31 Bruce Sass wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Kwin has started using 100% CPU when Desktop Effects are enabled right
> > after the non-free Nvidia driver in Unstable upgraded today (from 295.33
> > to 295.40).
> > 
> > Is anyone else seeing that behaviour?
> > Anyone not using the non-free Nvidea driver seeing it?
> > 
> > I'm guessing that it is Nvidia related. The last upgrade was a couple
> > weeks ago and this batch also pulled in new: libc, libstdc++, libx11,
> > linux-image, etc. so there is the possibility that Nvidia is not the
> > problem.
> 
> Hi. If you are using Oxygen (i.e., standard setup for workspace
> appearance), try this as a workaround:
> 
> System-Settings
> -> Workspace Appearance
> -> (Oxygen) Configure Decoration
> -> DISABLE "Enable animations"
> 
 Oxygen has not worked right on recent nvidia iterations. Problem is in 
KDE4.7.4.

I get the 100% CPU problem when running Chromium browser, filed a bug on that.