Hi all,

I use "Krita 4.2.0" appimage (download link)
and "Inkscape 1.0" appimage (download link)

I'm experiencing a 100% CPU usage, lasting around 10-20 seconds, whenever I do:

1. start Inkscape
2. create an ellipse
3. menu > Edit > Copy
4.and start Krita.

and then when I do:

5. (back to Inkscape)
6. set the Pencil > Shape to "From clipboard" (it's right below the main Inkscape toolbar)
6. create a new (ellipse | rectangle | path | spiral)
7. and copy it.

Note: quitting Krita will solve the high CPU usage.

Anyone experiencing the same? thanks

(tested on Ubuntu 14.04)

Hi Mvowada,

Thank you for the link to the Inkscape appimage, I didn't know about that.

Using the linked appimages, I followed your steps and saw no unusual CPU usage.
I'm running Debian 9 (stable) with regular updates.

Note: the pencil shape drop-down chooser is only present when the pencil tool is selected from the toolbar so it won't be there after creating an ellipse.

The copied ellipse pastes ok into a krita vector layer, if that's of any interest to you.

Thanks for checking,

ahabgreybeard wrote:Using the linked appimages, I followed your steps and saw no unusual CPU usage.

hm, I start Inkscape without the ~/.config/inkscape folder for testing...
I'm not sure if that would make a difference though

I just tried doing it with no ~/.config/inkscape folder. I get the same result. There is significant CPU usage on two of my eight cores (100% and 50%) for about 10 seconds when krita starts (as would be expected) but not any more after that.

ahabgreybeard wrote:I just tried doing it with no ~/.config/inkscape folder. I get the same result

thanks!
Here the CPU gets busy by just copying an ellipse in Inkscape 1.0 with Krita idling.
But it doesn't if I close Krita or by completing tasks more complex than that in Inkscape.