bman | # 41 | 2010-06-12, 04:29 | Report

how do i install powertop thru my fone... its not in apps manager and cant connect to my computer atm
i have uninstalled a few apps and its not using massive cpu on idle now
unintsalled showtime
and re installed catorise

Austinek | # 42 | 2010-06-12, 18:34 | Report

I think i found what is causing this bug, at least for me.
Im using "catorise".

how to reproduce the bug (5% cpu usage)

open xterminal, and voila, hildon-desktop using 5% CPU. You can restart hildon-desktop by typing "killall hildon-desktop" and try it again.
This works every time for me. So the problem is obviously in catorise, or the menu itself.

Sry for english

das_schlumpfie | # 43 | 2010-06-12, 18:59 | Report

@Austinek : i agree with you, but at the moment i cant uninstall catorise, looks like another reflash is needed.

mirakels | # 44 | 2010-06-12, 20:38 | Report

it should be easy to disable catorise. In /etc/xdg/menus should be a file hildon.catorise. This is the orignal n900 menu.
If you move the hildon.menu file to hildon.menu.org and then cp hildon.catorise to hildon.menu you should effectivly disabled the catorise menu.

menno | # 45 | 2010-06-13, 17:10 | Report

I can also confirm Austinek's results with Catorise. Seems to cause about 7% cpu usage for me. I've uninstalled it and will see if that solves the hildon-desktop cpu issues.

Cheers,
Menno

kyllerbuzcut | # 46 | 2010-06-13, 18:14 | Report

does anybody else notice the battery drop about 20 to 30% every time you turn off then on again?

handaxe | # 47 | 2010-06-13, 18:44 | Report

Yes indeed - a drop is expected but of quite so much?

HA

kyllerbuzcut | # 48 | 2010-06-13, 20:13 | Report

yes it is that much.Not evey time, but especially if I have some sluggish performance trying to watch a video or play a game and the processor is working hard. At that stage when I think I will reboot and try that again, that is when I notice a huge battery drop upon restarting.
Thought it may be related to the huge cpu battery drain problem

handaxe | # 49 | 2010-06-13, 20:46 | Report

Not related to the catorise / hildon-desktop issue reported here but it is an observable issue nonetheless (and in case I was unclear, I see it too).

I also observe the catorise behaviour, tho' the % usage seldom exceeds 3%

HA

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Jaffa | # 50 | 2010-06-13, 23:05 | Report

THanks to handaxe for pointing me here from the Catorise thread.

It looks like some code, possibly related to the new customisable menu, means that hildon-desktop doesn't work with the perfectly valid freedesktop.org file that Catorise generates. Given that Maemo no longer uses sub-categories, I wonder if the code there is broken (one of the reports above mentions going in and out of a category a dozen times).