Can confirm that upgrading to 3.14 according to the instructions written here has seemingly fixed the issue for me:
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/10/how-to-install-gnome-314-in-ubuntu.html Everything seems very responsive right now, vlc, rhythmbox, chrome, firefox, gedit and terminal. Cannot say however what other consequences this may have had.. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1386721 Title: Graphics Slow After Upgrade 14.04 - 14.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1386721/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs