Removing indicator-application. Problem here is that nm-applet is spewing icons across dbus and updating the menu constantly. Compiz has to redraw the area for every icon change, and that eats CPU. nm-applet has always had this problem, even under gnome2, for the animated connecting icon.
** No longer affects: indicator-application (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1538180 Title: wireless indicator icon animates continuously and consumes 10%+ CPU unnecessarily Status in network-manager-applet package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After my update of Xenial this morning, my wireless indicator just continues to animate regardless of what i do unfortunately running top and just watching the cpu usage this is ~10% cpu constantly for just compiz but adding nm-applet, indicator-application etc it's more like 15% cpu total To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1538180/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
