XFwm Compositor does not like work well with Image Magick import command

[Kok, Auke]

Patrick wrote:
> I have xfwm4.4.2, Image Magick 6.3.8.3, and nvidia driver 169.09.
> 
> With the compositor turned on, I used import to take a screen shot:
> 
> import -window root screencap.png
> 
> This completely stalled the computer for about a minute, after which
> it did finally did produce a screen shot. If I turn the compositor off
> the import command is near instant, as usual.
> 
> Has anyone else stumbled across this? I couldn't even ssh into the
> computer while it was happening :(. I am not a programmer and I have
> no idea what may cause this. If I can should provide any more
> information just let me know. Thank you.

check your console log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log - perhaps there's obvious output in
there.

Auke