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? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html