I am having the same problem. I usually just end up killing plasma- desktop and restarting it. This probably happens 10x throughout the day. I have not seen the same problem on my other desktop. This problem started when I upgraded to KDE 4.3.0.
$ lspci |grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series -- kdeinit4: plasma-desktop takes 60-90% of CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/419054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs