CRE-2025-0068

Gnome input lag on Nvidia Ubuntu desktopsLow

Impact: 6/10

Mitigation: 5/10

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GnomeNvidiaUbuntu

Description

Keyboard input or the entire screen may freeze at times on systems using the Nvidia Xorg driver with GNOME.\n

Mitigation

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 42.9-0ubuntu8\n\n```\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:vanvugt/mutter\nsudo apt update\nsudo apt upgrade\n```\n\nThen reboot.\n

References

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/2059847/comments/36
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/1509251/nvidia-drivers-cause-significant-lag-in-gnome-terminal
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3685
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/1509058/input-delay-on-terminal-ubuntu-22-04-4