[mythtv-users] MythFrontend CPU use

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/19/06 02:24, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:

>As I looked up things for this reply, I skipped over to the settings page 
>to see what I had set, and CPU use went down to nothing. Going back to the 
>main menu, and it goes back to 50% or more. So I played around a bit and 
>it looks like menus are the culprit. What I did was Alt-Tab to switch to a 
>Konsole I had running on the Desktop, then Ctrl-Esc to bring up the KDE 
>Process Table, and sorted on User %. By Alt-Tabbing between MythFrontend 
>and the Process tool I saw how different screens caused CPU usage to vary. 
>Menus uses lots of CPU, whereas other screens (input or display) used 
>virtually none.
>
>There are a couple exceptions: the Media Library, and Utilities/Setup 
>submenus off the main menu. I didn't look exhaustively, but I visited and 
>re-visited a number of screens to check my suspiscions.
>
>Then I switched to the QT Theme and saw the same patterns.
>
>Maybe someone else can try this out - it's really easy.
>

Are you using G.A.N.T theme?  If so, try changing to another theme.

Mike