Ken Foskey wrote:
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 00:07 +1000, david wrote:
I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when
holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the
screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half it's old speed.
I've tried all the usual things.... wd40, incantations to Ubuntu gods and
kicking the box, but to no avail. Top shows 97% idle most of the time. It
doesn't appear to have anything to do with accessibility option settings. Any
suggestions?
Do you have graphic effects enabled? I have a lot of conflict with
rdesktop (remote windows access) and compiz, keyboard slow or buggered
functioning.
> What application are you using? What graphics hardware? Drivers for
> screen?
>
I've tried turning effects off, but it makes no difference.
I'm using Intrepid, NVidia 8600 with whatever driver Intrepid likes to install.
Software is TextEditor, Vim, thunderbird (typically).
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