Comment 13 for bug 877064

I have pretty much the same problem here. Either typing in the Unity search doesn't happen or it's *very* sluggish and still won't respond to all my key strokes.

I updated from 11.04 to 11.10. I also use International input (Anthy) for Japanese text entry.

Disabling Anthy totally clears up the problem w/Unity's search. I can type fast and no key strokes are lost.

Of course now I can't type Japanese.

Thanks for looking into it. Let me know if I can provide any more info or test any patches.
Eric P.