Nothing I've tried seems to resolve the issue. I've now installed gnome-session-flashback and run the Metacity variant which is working fine.
When running Unity compiz eats > 100% cpu most of the time... Drag a window and it shoots up. Moving windows around the screen is unusable. # sudo lshw -C video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 12 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:41 memory:fc000000-fc3fffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:1800(size=8) All was fine on my laptop until some update around the beginning of September... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1293384 Title: Compiz CPU usage dramatically increased in Ubuntu 14.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/1293384/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs