Very slow xfce

Nishita Desai nishita at mri.ernet.in
Sat May 17 09:51:34 UTC 2008


On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Glyn Millington <glyn at millingtons.org> 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



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