I'm using Intrepid (8.10) beta upgraded from Hardy (8.04) and have the same problem.
Regardless of opening it from terminal or the menu in the X-Window, it is always slow when starting. It happens even when I ran it without any text file. -- Gedit is very slow when starting in Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280411 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