CPU consumtion by kglobalaccel / Xorg (was: Fwd: xorg-server-21.1.8_2,1 && key Control_L)

[Gleb Popov]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:42 AM Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
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> I investigated the problem described below further and modified
> ~/.xinitrc to not start plasma, but twm and one xterm. The issue depends
> clearly on KDE5. On KeyPress event of Control_L the two processes
> Xorg and kglobalaccel jump in top on the list, Xorg with 30++%.
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> If one uses multiple time Control_L + TAB to rotate between the virtual
> desktops, this is lazy at the beginning and later the requests get
> somehow stacked nd re-played by its own like a movie.
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> This is not with my older laptop installation with ports from end of
> 2020 (which have been bleeding edge at this time).
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> Should I file a bug in bugs.kde.org or is that somehow a known issue?
>
> Thanks

Probably you have something strange bound to this shortcut. Does the
problem exist for a newly created user (with empty ~/.config and
~/.cache) ?