Thanks Salvatore. I had the same problem (gedit hangs and mouse disappears) on a freshly installed Ubuntu 14.10, but without reaching 100% cpu utilization. Disabling ibus as you suggested solved the problem; not only in gedit, but also in a few other applications as well.
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