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-X, which is subscribed to xorg in 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp