Reproduce:

  1. Right-click on a URL in GNOME Terminal (eg. https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+filebug)
  2. type something

Expected: text appears
Actual: GNOME Terminal gets de-focused for ~2-5 seconds (cursor turns to open rectangle), then after 5 seconds the text appears.

This seemingly has always happened under Metacity (delay of <2 seconds) but I really noticed it as other window managers can cause considerably higher-delays.

Ideally the Right-Click URL opening code should be made asynchronous so that it happens in the background without affecting the focus of the current window or causing it to block until the result of the action is known (gnome-terminal doesn't react on result of the open-action anyway).