Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 09:18:05 +0100 From: Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> To: nishita@mri.ernet.in Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very slow xfce Message-ID: <868wy98htu.fsf@nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <c8170b650805170054pa9e9f4dsc81d47bb91b68404@mail.gmail.com> (Nishita Desai's message of "Sat\, 17 May 2008 13\:24\:24 %2B0530") References: <c8170b650805170054pa9e9f4dsc81d47bb91b68404@mail.gmail.com>
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"Nishita Desai" <nishita@mri.ernet.in> 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
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