xfce4 ? lockups?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Chuck,

> Welp... it did it again this morning... this time I could ssh into the
> machine. It was only X that croaked... 

Okay, can you try the very latest CVS ?

> the behavior was very much like
> the old race conditions I caused in the old xfce3 when switching between
> screens.

No chance, there is no code in common between xfwm3 and xfwm4

> There was no core file or anything... X was just locked up tight and
> would do nothing.

Most distributions set "ulimit -c to zero" so that the filesystem
doesn't get full of cores.

Set "ulimit -c unlimited" in your .bashrc if you want to have a chance
to catch the cores. 

Cheers,
-- 
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
http://www.xfce.org