XFCE Hangs

[Alexander Toresson]

On 2/9/06, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> 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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Please define "Xfce hangs" -- is it just the xfce apps that hang? What
can you do and what is displayed when this happens?

Regards, Alexander Toresson