Re: [Gnuplot-info] gnuplot 4.0 / Ubuntu: Xorg uses a lot of CPU

[Thierry B. <ti...@in...>]

I have killed klipper and now everything is fine ! 
thanks !

Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

> Thierry Baertschiger wrote:
>
>> I have compiled gnuplut 4.0 on Ubuntu (5.10 Breezy) . Then when I use 
>> gnuplot (with its terminal X), the Xserver (Xorg) works a lot (Intel 
>> Xeon 2.8 GHz). It becomes actually hard to work with other applications.
>
> [...]
>
>> I use gnuplot since more than five years on linux and I have never 
>> had this problem.
>
>
> gnuplot 4.0 basically didn't change since its release almost 2 years 
> ago.  Your Linux distribution did.  You guess whom that makes the more 
> likely culprit...
>
>> Does anybody know what's wrong ?
>
>
> In the case we analyzed this, KDE is.  More particularly, the 
> "klipper" process is interacting badly with gnuplot's way of handling 
> the X cut'n'paste mechanism.  It turns that both KDE and gnuplot are 
> acting in slight disagreement with the X11 recommendations for 
> cut'n'paste, such that if you combine the two, klipper will spend 
> excessive amounts of time asking the X server for the data gnuplot 
> offered.
>
> The next gnuplot release will probably fix this.
>