Bug#604117: desklaunch consumes too much cpu time

[Michael Ringe]

Package: desklaunch
Version: 1.1.7
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch

Desklaunch consumes a lot of CPU time (about 5% on my system) while doing nothing.
This problem could easily be solved as shown below

<<<< patch start
--- desklaunch-1.1.7/desklaunch.c 2010-02-14 16:13:07.000000000 +0100
+++ desklaunch-mri/desklaunch.c 2010-11-09 20:14:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -541,14 +550,16 @@
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
initialize ();
+ int loop = 0;

/* Event loop */
while (1)
{
XEvent ev;

- while (XPending (dpy))
+ while (loop || XPending (dpy))
{
+ loop = 0;
XNextEvent (dpy, &ev);
switch (ev.type)
{
@@ -573,6 +584,7 @@
parse_rc (getenv ("HOME"), RCFILE);
}
usleep (250);
+ loop = 1;
}
return 0;
}
<<<< patch end

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34.1MRI (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages desklaunch depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library

desklaunch recommends no packages.

desklaunch suggests no packages.

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