XFCE Hangs

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John Lee wrote:
> Until yesterday, I was using X.org's XFree86/X11 on Arch Linux 0.7 
> (Wombat) with XFCE 4.2.0. Because XFCE has a knack for hanging on my 
> computer (as often as three or four times a day), I just upgraded to 
> XFCE 4.2.3.2. This hasn't helped much, though.
>
> Sometimes just when I click on something, XFCE hangs. The mouse cursor 
> can still move, however. It's only XFCE, because my gAIM and XChat beep 
> when I get new messages. However, I can't quit. All sorts of 
> combinations of shift, alt, ctrl, backspace and esc have been tried, 
> none of which will stop/restart X or XFCE. It's very annoying, 
> considering how frequent this is. I don't think it's my hardware, 
> because I can compile the kernel just fine (from my experience, if the 
> processing hardware is damaged, recompiling the kernel is the best way 
> to test for this). I'm using the generic nVidia driver, so I doubt it's 
> a driver problem.
>
> Any help is very appreciated. :)
>
> John Lee
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it looks like a nVidia bug. it was many times reported on nvnews forum...