[clug] gnome-shell comsuming 80% to 100% CPU

[Chris Smart]

On Wed, 15 May 2019, at 22:53, George at Clug via linux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Thought I would give Gnome a try but after new installation I found
> that gnome-shell is comsuming 80% to 100% CPU. Mouse hardly moving
> across the screen.
> 
> 
> I dislike Gnome, maybe it knows?
> 
> 
> Seriously, does anyone know of a issue with Gnome that could be
> causing it to be consuming way too much CPU resources?
> 
> 

The desktop is rendered JavaScript with animations so it will be slower on old hardware, but you could also try turning off animations if the command below still works (it did in 2014).

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false

-c