I have the same issue on an ATI Radeon AGP 3850. What I did to make it start normally again was check the "Background image" in the Background tab of the Profile options (without any image selected for background) and clicked OK, I still get my regular transparent background and it starts fast again.
I have no idea why this happens so I'm just shooting in the dark but for me on the xorg radeon/ati driver getimage performance is horrid which I think is related to why for example loading large images in Firefox almost grinds my entire computer to an halt until the image has finished loading. This is supposedly fixed and improved to 10x faster something in the xorg radeon driver 6.13rc2 or something like that so I'm waiting for that to hit Lucid because I'm too stupid to get it unless it's in a easy repo somewhere. Now this is just a guess. -- transparent background heavily delays gnome-terminal start up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/530094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
