Thank for looking into this. Here are the answers: what locale do you use? en_US.UTF-8
do you have high cpu usage? 0% There is no effect on the CPU, disk or RAM that I can tell. The programs simply are slow -- very odd. does changing the icon theme makes a difference? No, no effect unfortunately "Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find." Oh sorry, my search didn't find anything useful. Can you point me to the other bug so I can subscribe to it? Thanks. -- After xorg and gtk updates many programs run extremely slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210646 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