From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 08:17:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682121065676 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 08:17:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from venus.karoo.kcom.com (venus.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E7B8FC13 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 08:17:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,500,1204502400"; d="scan'208";a="302296176" Received: from unknown (HELO glynthebearded.millingtons.org) ([82.152.120.109]) by venus.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 17 May 2008 09:17:01 +0100 Received: by glynthebearded.millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E96CF22855; Sat, 17 May 2008 09:18:05 +0100 (BST) To: nishita@mri.ernet.in References: Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. X-Now-Playing: There's a deathly hush in the close tonight! X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Saturday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time, A.D. 2008 From: Glyn Millington Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 09:18:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Nishita Desai's message of "Sat\, 17 May 2008 13\:24\:24 +0530") Message-ID: <868wy98htu.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very slow xfce X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 08:17:02 -0000 "Nishita Desai" writes: > Hello, > > I am having a very strange problem. I just finished installing > Xfce-4.4 and got it to work with XDM. But all xfce native applications > are behaving very strangely: > > 1. The terminal doesn't echo back my characters till I've typed the > next character. This is applicable to backspace key and password > prompts (which wont show up till _after_ if finished typing and > pressed enter) > 2. The menus dont render properly. Again, I can see the the items only > when I hover over them. > > xterm works fine, so do menus within Firefox. Although my cursor > disappears in Firefox's text-boxes sometimes. > > I have just installed exactly this combination on another system and > it works fine. I am quite at a loss where to even start looking. Any > help would be appreciated. Just as a start, until the experts arrive ...... Is Xfce just too much for the system? It ran nicely here a while back on a 900mhz machine - but was noticeably slower than fvwm, so I ditched it :-) Firefox works - but does it take forever for ff to start? Xterm works - close down firefox and everything else, fire up an xterm and run top - is there anything using up a lot of memory or cpu that shouldn't be there at all? Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log - any interesting error messages? What does your .xinitrc look like? atb Glyn