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  • my root partition is nearly 55GB free. And other partitions might have very less free space.I'll free them up and post the result. But why only terminal emulators suffer lag,not other apps? Commented May 2, 2019 at 4:56
  • Tried that. Not working... Any other ideas? Commented May 2, 2019 at 19:13
  • @AbinashDash I edited my post to show another possible answer to your issue. Please see response above ^^ Commented May 2, 2019 at 20:40
  • thanks @Gordster for the link. As far as I understood the post, the problem was related to compositor(compton). So instead of disabling it(as I like compositing very much). I tried sway wm(which uses wayland instead of xorg). Unfortunately, the problem occurred with sway too.... Commented May 3, 2019 at 8:40
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    Recently I noticed that this issue shows up,mostly when my wifi is on. It may be because of the wifi scanning for available networks occasionally and a python script I use to update the i3-bar. Not very sure though. Commented Nov 20, 2020 at 10:40