bug, bitcoin-qt take clicking away from desktop #7139

raedah commented at 12:04 AM on December 1, 2015: none

I am running bitcoin-qt from master. I use openbox which lets me access my app menu by right clicking on my desktop. Often times when bitcoin-qt is running, i cant access my desktop right click menu anymore. It doesnt happen right away, but after bitcoin-qt is running for a while. I know it is bitcoin-qt that is doing it because as soon as I close it my desktop menu is accessible again. I know this is a hard one to track since I cant duplicate it every time, but I thought I would report it so we can start verifying if others are experiencing it.

jonasschnelli added the label GUI on Dec 1, 2015

jonasschnelli commented at 7:33 AM on December 1, 2015: contributor

Very likely this happens because of high CPU usage during IBD. @raedah: Is your client "in-sync"? What is your best-blocks height?

laanwj commented at 8:54 AM on December 1, 2015: member

Yes, most likely lock contention or high CPU usage during IBD blocking the GUI thread #7112 (merged for 0.12) likely makes this better

raedah commented at 4:17 AM on December 3, 2015: none

Its not high CPU. My machine is idle. It seems to kick in after left running for some time. So I leave bitcoin-qt running overnight, and come back the next day and I can no longer right click my desktop until I close bitcoin-qt and reopen it. Could it be IO locking from network? My connection is not consistent, so frequently offline.

laanwj commented at 10:05 AM on December 3, 2015: member

You haven't mentioned what OS

raedah commented at 7:50 PM on December 3, 2015: none

Arch Linux

laanwj added the label Linux/Unix on Dec 4, 2015

raedah commented at 5:41 AM on January 31, 2016: none

Tested on v0.12.0rc2 and I still have this issue. I dot not get this issue with v0.11.2.

laanwj commented at 12:04 PM on February 16, 2016: member

@readah Both built in the same way? (if you are comparing an executable from bitcoin.org with a self-built one, or one from your Linux distro, that may be the source of the issue, as they are linked to different versions of Qt under different circumstances)

raedah commented at 10:43 PM on February 16, 2016: none

only happens on self-built, so that could be.

raedah closed this on Feb 16, 2016

laanwj commented at 8:44 AM on February 17, 2016: member

What version of qt are you building against?

raedah commented at 7:57 PM on February 18, 2016: none

My system has qt4 4.8.7-6 and qt5-base 5.5.1-9

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