I suffer with the same issue, and I have applied the above workaround (kill nautilus), it seems to stop the high usage of the CPU by nautilus, but it has broken the screensaver when switching users. I get a blank (white) screen, and if I type in my password, I get my desktop back. Only way I have found to fix this, is by disabling desktop effects.
-- [Gutsy] high processor activity after logging out and then logging in again https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150471 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