I think this is related to bug #85956 I've rebuild vte with the patch from gnome BTS and it seems that gnome- terminal is a lot more reactive. Could someone confirm? BTW xorg still use a lot of cpu
-- gnome-terminal reacting very sluggishly https://launchpad.net/bugs/85575 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs