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title: "Crazy behavior of Xfce Note CPU Usage, bug going back to 2012 and still happening in 2020"
date: 2020-10-06T00:00:00.000Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
url: https://rmendes.net/notes/2020/10/06/crazy-behavior-of-xfce-note-cpu-usage-bug-going/
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# Crazy behavior of Xfce Note CPU Usage, bug going back to 2012 and still happening in 2020

## [Crazy behavior of Xfce Note CPU Usage, bug going back to 2012 and still happening in 2020](https://blog.rmendes.net/2020/crazy-behavior-of-xfce-note-cpu-usage-bug-going-back)

[](https://blog.rmendes.net/file/9a39a0e39a716d0502577c1852040bd4/Screenshot_2020-10-06_12-49-41.png)

Step to reproduce : change the color of the note

close/reopen note

watch the CPU usage spike to 90+ % and my laptop ventilation going crazy !  
See the abrupt CPU usage down on the left of the image ?   
that's when I kill Xfce Note  
  
See the CPU usage spike on the right of the image and crumbling down ?  
that's when I relaunch Xfce note and kill it.   
  
It seems the only workaround is to NOT use this application, ever.   
Just removed it from startup and will use my NextCloud Carnet instead !