I'm using Intrepid (8.10) beta upgraded from Hardy (8.04) and have the same problem.
Regardless of opening it from terminal or the menu in the X-Window, it is always slow when starting. It happens even when I ran it without any text file. -- Gedit is very slow when starting in Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280411 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
