Re: Has anybody else seen a delay in xfce?

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On 10/08/12 13:26, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 05:15 AM, Kevin Martin issued this missive:
>> <snip>
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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).
> 
> Are you certain you don't have something else in the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory that's turning it back 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.
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FWIW, here's my xorg.conf and contents of the file in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
	FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
        ### <percent>: "<f>%"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        Option     "NoAccel" "1"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "WrappedFB"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "GLXVBlank"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ZaphodHeads"        	# <str>
        #Option     "PageFlip"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SwapLimit"          	# <i>
        #Option     "AsyncUTSDFS"        	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "nouveau"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "off"
EndSection


$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/01-anaconda-keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	"kickstart"
	MatchIsKeyboard	"on"
	Option	"XkbLayout"	"us"
	Option	"XkbVariant"	""
	Option	"XkbOptions"	"grp:alt_shift_toggle"

Kevin
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