[clue] XFCE freezes on log in.

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:29:39 -0400
CP Constantine <conrad at 1211.net> wrote:

> 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).

Xfce has composting (available in the window manager tweaks preference
applet), but no distro I know of off hand is shipping it enabled by
default, nor does upstream Xfce suggest doing so. ;) 

kevin
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