Re: XFCE unusably slow when only on laptop screen

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
>
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