Comment 5 for bug 690534

$: cat ~/.config/xfce4/xfce4-notes.gtkrc
gtk_color_scheme = "notes_fg_color:#e734ac00d262\nnotes_bg_color:#58f6422f50f3\nnotes_base_color:#e734ac00d262\nnotes_text_color:#58f6422f50f3\nnotes_selected_bg_color:#7a295ae16f29\nnotes_selected_fg_color:#e734ac00d262"
include "/usr/share/xfce4-notes-plugin/gtk-2.0/notes.gtkrc"

$: xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /plugins/notes -lv
/plugins/notes/global/background-color #e734ac00d262
/plugins/notes/global/show-navbar false
/plugins/notes/global/skip-taskbar-hint false
/plugins/notes/global/tabs-position 1
/plugins/notes/new-window/always-on-top false
/plugins/notes/new-window/height 375
/plugins/notes/new-window/sticky false
/plugins/notes/new-window/width 300

An additional comment: If I kill the offending xfce4-notes process, and then restart by selecting Notes on the xfce4 menu the excessive CPU usage does not resume.