[clue] XFCE freezes on log in.

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Thursday, September 08, 2011 11:29:39 PM CP Constantine wrote:
> On 09/08/2011 11:22 PM, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > Does the login program let you choose what to start after login, e.g.,
> > XFCE, KDE, etc?   If so, is there a safe mode that you can choose? 
> > Maybe that will let the first user log in and the session files would
> > hopefully be created when the user logs out.
> 
> additional: does this freezee happen with all window managers? the fact
> the machine no longer responds to external SSH connections makes me
> think you've got a hardware lockup issue, and that graphics card drivers
> may be the issue. XFCE enables compositing by default in recent
> versions, and that may be throwing your driver for a loop (whereas
> GDM/KDM, to my knowledge, do not use compositing).
> 
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I didn't know that XFCE has compositing.  GNOME 3 would almost always lock up 
my netbook or cause a reboot due to a hypertransport sync flood after I had 
logged in.  Compositing appeared to be the culprit.