Comment 168 for bug 969359

I am on 14.04 LTS and using Gnome. I encountered severe and frequent high CPU consumption caused by gnome-settings-daemon process. I then deleted /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin. I also applied the num lock fix as explained in #107.

I noticed improved (less frequent) gnome-settings-daemon "hangs," but still experienced them enough to be a big irritant. I then started performing traces. and noticed many failures in trying to open /var/cache/fontconfig. I then googled what could be causing that. I then came across this page: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612105

I then applied (as suggested on that page) restorecon -R '/var/cache/fontconfig'

That seems to have done the trick. Everything is quiet now. I will post again if I experience any further problems. Hope this helps someone else!