Is this CPU usage normal for Xorg?

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Published on 2011-05-15T20:56:40Z Indexed on 2012/03/26 17:39 UTC
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I checked System Monitor to see if the frequency of my CPU increases without doing anything and saw that xorg is always using 10-40% of the CPU even if it's not doing much of anything on the desktop or simply surfing the Internet. Is this normal? If not, how can I fix it?

I have:

a Macbook white 4,1
Core2 Duo running at 2.10 GHz
GPU Intel GMA X3100
4GB of RAM
Ubuntu 11.04

I am running Unity and I do not have many effects enabled. I have only activated Compiz animations, scale, desktop, some shadows...

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