Attaching to the leftover process with strace, there are millions of messages of the form
access("/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.en_ZA", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.en_ZA", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/home/stefan/.gtk-2.0/2.10.0/i486-pc-linux-gnu/engines/libclearlooks.so", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/home/stefan/.gtk-2.0/2.10.0/i486-pc-linux-gnu/engines/libclearlooks.la", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/home/stefan/.themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) Almost looks like it keeps trying to refresh the theme directory. -- gnome-appearance-properties hogs processor even after close https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs