Installed systems obviously vary a great deal, but fwiw I run Arch and have never seen this problem. I am a little unusual because (having used emelfm2 even before I switched to Arch almost 6 years ago, and having helped out a bit with testing in the past), I compile my own emelfm2 rather than use the version in the repos. I was running 0.8.1 until half an hour ago, until this thread prompted me to get off my lazy rear and install : emelFM2 v. 0.9.0 Licensed under the GPL Copyright (C) 2003-2013, tooar <tooar@xxxxxxxxxxx> Build date: Fri 27 Sep 08:55:38 BST 2013 Build platform: GTK+ 3.8.4 Linux 3.11.1-3-ARCH/i686 So far, I still cannot see any high cpu load or journal entries re emelfm2. Geoff -- Users can unsubscribe from the list by sending email to emelfm2-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field or by logging into the web interface.