From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 09:51:34 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 916211065672 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 09:51:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nish.des@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A9C8FC42 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 09:51:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nish.des@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so626857rvf.43 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 02:51:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=Z2vsN9cQM1NMB4HgzT9COgaV3eNZpi8LltltL7ImjSM=; b=DH8wb3fCwYrDCLAxphzc3LrcVduS5IcsOJf/Xm8teWCeVYQoyoDaD7/617Ze/U7KXcb/MKAAM6RZjykyh8fBisENGF2xBCN830IQhCQXi6tR+PdN1geII7jzr1xSOZUXZYqmD9pxm+k9IlS6WD8LKwWejrRjjFoXXYggkSJ6nDQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=tA8TOSEoZAIefE/lQJkWEm4Ha2gDhJB0QvN/DGoHyF5FwhZs8TaY36/aXicJnLWnpKwcUh3CJcjYPXc0/ROAhszrBU6yGsZ1IIFrrwPpJ+syRanZ7Lh/A7tOGGrdHWiDloreNSyUuE/Cf9333c+b3K3i+e6xYnfr4s6QMlhemLU= Received: by 10.141.193.1 with SMTP id v1mr2350185rvp.245.1211017893487; Sat, 17 May 2008 02:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.67.8 with HTTP; Sat, 17 May 2008 02:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 15:21:33 +0530 From: "Nishita Desai" Sender: nish.des@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <868wy98htu.fsf@nowhere.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 08a1b27a39d88b47 Subject: Re: Very slow xfce X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nishita@mri.ernet.in List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 09:51:34 -0000 On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Glyn Millington wrote: > 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 > :-) It's a brand-new laptop, so I don't think it's got to do with memory or processor speed. Top doesn't show anything. Maximum cpu usage percentage is within single digits and so is the memory usage. > Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log - any interesting error messages? Nothing I can spot. > > What does your .xinitrc look like? It has only one line: /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 reg, Nishita -- http://nishita.50webs.com/