Bug 132614

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

It often happens to me that input fields start to act strange: suddenly (sometimes int he middle of editing, sometimes from the beginning on) the input field acts very slow, presenting the characters I entered only a cetain time after it displayed the last character. At the same time X goes crazy, and eats quite a lot of CPU.

This happened in almost all applications I use in my daily live: kopete, kedit, kmail, and especially konqueror. It does not happen every time, and is hard to reproduce, but it happens more than in 50% of the time.


A bit more detailed: when this happens the amount of time the input field needs to display a next character is fixed, but depends on my input speed: when I write fast (like letters, blogs, etc.) the time grows and also grows the CPU percentage X eats.
This starts sometimes at the beginning of writing into the text field, but sometimes it starts in the middle of the writing.

Also it can end suddenly. I have "developed" different workarounds to get rid of them, but there is no one which works for certain: I try to open and close other applications until I can continue writing in the normal mode.
In cases of E-Mails or kopete chat windows I just close the window (save as draft for kmail), open and close some random stuff, and open it again - sometimes it works.

This bug most often appears in edit fields in konqueror, since that's the program I use most often (wikis, blogs, etc.). In kopete it happens only very seldom, but there I usually do not write large text blocks.

It appeared first - as far as I remember right - with KDE 3.4. If not with KDE 3.4, than shortly after that.


Because I run Fedora I can easily install debug versions of whatever packet you ask me for, and run debug mode or whatever - just add a short explanation how to run a debug session for a program like konqueror (I always forget that).

My system:
Intel Pentium M 1.8 GHz, 1 GB Ram
ATI Radeon 9700, 256 MB Ram, OpenGL version: 2.0.5946 (proprietary fglrx drivers)


And, honestly: this is my number one bug for a year or so now - if there would be a "fix kde bugs and get money" program, I would offer money!