From nobody Tue Dec 30 23:44:08 2025 X-Original-To: freebsd-desktop@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4dgqS02ckyz6LgZD for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ben@benhutton.com.au) Received: from mail.myuniquemail.com (mail.myuniquemail.com [115.70.107.139]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4dgqRy3lwxz3sTr for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:44:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ben@benhutton.com.au) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=reject) header.from=benhutton.com.au; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of ben@benhutton.com.au designates 115.70.107.139 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ben@benhutton.com.au Received: from [10.128.2.199] (unknown [10.128.10.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange x25519 server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.myuniquemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E80921DBFD8 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:44:08 +0800 (AWST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:44:08 +0800 List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-desktop List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: XFCE unusably slow when only on laptop screen To: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org References: Content-Language: en-AU From: Ben Hutton In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamd-Bar: / X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.26 / 15.00]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.98)[0.975]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.96)[0.964]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.88)[-0.884]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[benhutton.com.au,reject]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[ben]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; ASN(0.00)[asn:10143, ipnet:115.70.104.0/21, country:AU]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4dgqRy3lwxz3sTr 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 > >