[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#381297: dbus: Dbus makes keyboard input VERY sluggish

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Package: dbus
Version: 0.62-4
Severity: important

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Having just put together a diminutive desktop based around IceWM, I noticed that 
mozilla-totem had a missing dependency on dbus to enable Firefox to control Totem. 
As soon as I had installed dbus, keyboard input inside X became VERY sluggish:  
duplicated keystrokes, skipped kestrokes, etc. Removing dbus instantly fixed it.

As a second test, I force-removed (dpkg -P --force-depends dbus) dbus on my main 
desktop, which runs GNOME, and on which sluggish keyboard operation crept in back 
a few GNOME versions ago (presumably when evolution, gnome-screensaver or rhythmbox 
started to depend upon dbus). Same effect: MUCH smoother keyboard input without dbus.

It therefore seems that I have accidentally found a source of keyboard input hindrance
inside X, with dbus as the cause.  

It would probably be a good idea to forward this bug report to upstream.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-imac
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.95       Add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                   2.17       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-2                   0.62-4     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                     1.95.8-3.2 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libice6                       1:1.0.0-3  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6                        1:1.0.0-4  X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.0-7  X11 client-side library
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-10     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

dbus recommends no packages.

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