This is a serious problem. A fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10 followed by
switching to the Nvidia binary drivers will give you a completely blank
desktop on next reboot. Someone new to Linux will have no idea what to
do.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Do a new, clean install of Ubuntu 12.10, and boot into it
Sorry, I spoke to soon: Switching off subpixel rendering was only a
temporary fix; the problem is suddenly back. Worked for a good while
though (tested a while before posting the previous comment).
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It seems I just ran into this problem on Ubuntu 12.04 (final beta) with
nvidia's binary drivers v295.40, using XFCE. Geany would randomly become
extremely slow, sometimes taking seconds to update the text view.
Whenever this happened, Xorg used 60-100% CPU. Switching off subpixel
rendering in XFCE'
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