Bug#954144: key-mon: Relatively high CPU use on idle machine

And it turns out the original author is still maintaining the code (with some help from others). Here is a more up-to-date version, including conversions to Python 3 and GTK 3, done just recently. Time to update the Debian package to this new upstream?

Bug#954144: key-mon: Relatively high CPU use on idle machine

Turns out there has been a little bit of further development on this project since it was last packaged for Debian. I have imported the original commit history from Google Code and rebased my changes on it. My repo is available from GitHub and GitLab

Bug#954144: key-mon: Relatively high CPU use on idle machine

Philipp Marek wrote: > I'd have expected it to be event-triggered, so that no polling > would be necessary - seems I'm wrong. I don’t know enough about X11 programming to be sure, but it probably needs to do this in order to catch modifier key state in events sent to other windows. Still, it is

Bug#954144: key-mon: Relatively high CPU use on idle machine

Package: key-mon Version: 1.17-1 Severity: minor On a machine that receives no input (neither mouse nor keyboard), "key-mon" requires about 10% CPU for me. I'd have expected it to be event-triggered, so that no polling would be necessary - seems I'm wrong. strace shows it being active about a t