[arch-general] KDE and plasma-desktop CPU usage

[Leon Feng]

2012/8/12 Shridhar Daithankar <ghodechhap at ghodechhap.net>:
> On Saturday 11 Aug 2012 5:59:58 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 19:40 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>> > Google is not much of help. Any suggestions before I report the bug
>> > upstream?
>> "pacman -Rdd phonon-gstreamer
>> pacman -S phonon-vlc" -
>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133359
>>
>> https://www.google.de/search?q=plasma%20desktop%20100%25%
>> 20cpu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
>> &source=hp&channel=np
>
> Not required. I solved it shortly after the post.
>
> I was poking around and noticed that $HOME/.kde4/share/config did not have any
> plasma related file. So I copied following files from my desktop machine
>
> plasma-appletsrc
> plasma-desktop-appletsrc
> plasma-desktoprc
> plasmarc
> plasma-windowed-appletsrc
>
> And now I have a functioning KDE desktop in 300MB RAM :)
>
> I am going to reproduce this again and report a bug upstream.
>

I have the same problem. In my case, two method can solve by pass it:
1. export LOCAL=c
2. remove the clock applet

Leon

>
> --
> Regards
>  Shridhar