Entering text quickly into entry widget makes Cinnamon freeze

[christophra]

Using Cinnamon 2.6.13, entering text into e.g. the "Connect server" field of the settings dialog.

I don't know anything about GTK, but maybe it's something performed on each single-character change to the text which takes too long? Is this what widget.connect('changed', self._entry_change, key) does?

I can enter one character at a time, with two or three it takes a while, and entering more at a normal typing speed makes Cinnamon entirely unresponsive.

This issue doesn't seem to occur with the changes from daschuer applied.