It's the same here on Xubuntu 16.04 (without compositor). I managed to lower the CPU usage by killing indicator-application-service in a loop:
for((;;)) do killall indicator-application-service; done After a few seconds press Ctrl+C. This is duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-indicator-plugin/+bug/1583164 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582878 Title: panel-6-indicat uses 25% CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4/+bug/1582878/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
