CPU microfreezes with gnome-shell

[SmileyChris]

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Describe the bug

I've been having an ongoing problem with gnome-shell freezing for a very short amount of time every 10 seconds (I could see the jumps in cpu in the system monitor graph, and htop picked it up as gnome-shell).

I had written it off to the material-shell gnome extension, as this seemed to make it more noticable. I stumbled across material-shell/material-shell#805 and remembered I had installed this. Uninstalling AppImageLauncher (and rebooting) solved the hitches for me.

Expected behavior

No freezes!

I'm guessing it could be some combination of factors here, and the blame might not lie directly with AppImageLauncher, but one of the factors does seem to be appimagelauncherd running.

Steps to reproduce the issue

I've experienced this across two separate computers, both with appimagelauncher installed. Removing appimagelauncher and restarting stopped the freezes.

Screenshots

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Distribution and desktop environment

Manjaro, Gnome Both computers also had amd cpu architecture and nvidia graphics with proprietary drivers installed.

Installed AppImageLauncher version

2.2.0-9 from the Manjaro official community repository.

List of AppImages you tried

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Additional context

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[tomoem]

Same problem here. Freeze for about 10 seconds, after boot, with version 2.2.0. The problem also occurred with the latest version from git. Uninstalling AppImageLauncher, solves the issue. OS: EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma.

[Skeletonek]

Same problem here, entire PC freezes for about 10 seconds most often right after boot Using Fedora 37 with KDE Plasma, AMD CPU and GPU

[ferdnyc]

I can also confirm this is an issue in Fedora 38, running a GNOME Shell session under Wayland.

Having the appimagelauncher RPM installed and the appimagelauncherd.service enabled and running in the user session produces frequent (repeating every few seconds or less) microfreezes of the entire desktop, including output and input events. More detailed description here. These steps:

systemctl --user disable --now appimagelauncherd.service
sudo systemctl restart systemd-binfmt.service
sudo dnf remove appimagelauncher

completely cleared up the freezing (without even requiring a reboot/logout).