Re: Has anybody else seen a delay in xfce?

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> De: Kevin Martin <ktmdms@xxxxxxxxx>
> Assunto: Re: Has anybody else seen a delay in xfce?
> Para: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Data: Segunda-feira, 8 de Outubro de 2012, 9:15
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> >     > Regards,
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> >     > ------------------------
> >     > Kevin Martin
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> > 
> >     I use F17 and Xfce. My PC is
> very old (Athlon) so I see a delay when switching to a
> thunderbird window but it's sometimes less
> >     than a second, sometimes maybe
> a couple of seconds.
> >     So specially if your computer
> isn't as old then maybe you have a video driver issue? Just
> a guess that might be wrong.
> >     So the issue exists but for
> some reason you're having it exaggerated.
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> > I don't see any issues on my F18 instances (VirtualBox)
> and F18 installed on my laptop, so it must be something
> there is depending
> > on hardware.
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> > 
> Hmm, the switching problem is solved.  But a second
> problem (which I hoped would be fixed if I got the switching
> problem figured
> out) still exists.
> 
> For a little more background, in order to get the nouveau
> driver to work with my card I had to set "Option "NoAccel"
> 1  " in the
> Devices section of my xorg.conf file....without this X would
> crash every time (there is an open bugzilla about this that
> nobody
> seems interested in working on).  I used to start the
> OS with nouveau.noaccel=1 in the linux line but that has
> stopped working (yet
> another bugzilla that nobody is working on that I can
> tell).  And I solved my switching problem by adding
> this to my xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "Extensions"
>     Option "Composite" "off"
> EndSection
> 
> So I can switch from workspace to workspace with no issue
> now.  The other issue I'm still seeing is when I move a
> window within the
> workspace...instead of the window just moving to the new
> location that I drag it to there is a noticeable delay in
> the repaint of
> the window....if I set it so that the content of the window
> is not shown during the move it's less noticeable but still
> obvious.
> And occasionally the system doesn't recognize when I release
> the mouse button during the move such that if I release the
> button but
> continue to move the mouse the window still follows the
> mouse and ends up in a place that I didn't intend.
> 
> So I'm getting closer and will continue to experiment. 
> Any thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated.
> 
> Kevin
> 

The obvious suggestion to solve your video issues is to install the driver from NVIDIA from rpmfusion. Otherwise you can keep on testing and troubleshooting nouveau through bug reports etc.
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