Ubuntu 9.10 terminal is very slow. Most noticeable when exiting, takes several seconds to respond

Alright so here's one way to get this accomplished. Turn off compiz
effects. Right click -> Change Desktop Background -> Visual Effects and
then click on none.

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 03:57 +0000, leargaf wrote:
> New question #93133 on Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/93133
>
> Hi,
>
> problem happens every time I work on a terminal. Response seems sluggish and when I exit the terminal, either with ctl-d or using the mouse, it takes several seconds for it to close. Also applications launched from the terminal fail. For example "evince &" doesn't do anything and "devede &" displays the application's GUI but the GUI itself doesn't respond. Starting and Exiting Ubuntu is also slow. I have an nvidia gfx card and was using the nvidia-glx-185 driver but I have removed it. I'd appreciate any help you can provide.
>
> Thx,
>
> Rafael
>
>

Hi Vikram,

thanks for your suggestion. Visual effects were already off, so problem persists.

Regards,

Rafael

Hi,

the problem was asterisk. It was hogging 100% of one cpu all the time, probably because of a careless configuration on my part.

Thanks,

Rafael