Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:44:08 +0800 From: Ben Hutton <ben@benhutton.com.au> To: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFCE unusably slow when only on laptop screen Message-ID: <c5963a47-1b4f-4c7c-8172-087b9e11ff40@benhutton.com.au> In-Reply-To: <ddbf4e25-f1ca-442b-895d-5661358656f0@benhutton.com.au> References: <ddbf4e25-f1ca-442b-895d-5661358656f0@benhutton.com.au>
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On further investigation it appears to be an issue with XFCE. I switched to KDE and it is working as expected. On 12/30/25 22:35, Ben Hutton wrote: > Hi, > > I have an odd problem since doing a pkg upgrade earlier today. Since > I've done that my laptop is painfull slow in XFCE but only when using > the laptop without external displays. As soon as I plug in an external > display it runs at normal performance. After disconnecting the > external display it takes 1-2 seconds to respond to general typing and > also task switching. Dragging windows around is also painfully slow. > If I switch to a tty it is performant again as well. > > Note this on a Thinkpad P1 Gen3 running hybrid graphics using both > Intel and Nvidia. From memory when using external screens it switches > to the NVidia GPU and uses the Intel when no external displays are > attached (at least that's my understanding). > > I have tried upgrading FreeBSD to the latest current. I have also > force upgraded all packages. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > Kind regards > Ben > >help
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