Thank you guys, for your replies. I'll look into Wicd, it's tray icon is much nicer than nm.applet's
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because my college's connection is really complicated (WPA Enterprise + TKIP + TLS + CA certificate file + user + etc etc) I can't really afford to lose network at this point of the semester
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1. pacman -S wicd
2. /etc/rc.d/wicd start (add wicd to DAEMONS)
3. /usr/lib/wicd/tray.py or /usr/lib/wicd/guy.py
4. Connect and have fun!
(according to the wiki page you do not have to disable the network scripts)
One bug I've noticed though is that you have to manually specify the name servers
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]]>I had something like this, although I can't remember what the problem was. Try using a default video driver and see if that helps. Also do you stop networkmanager or is the applet simply not running? /etc/rc.d/network-manager stop
]]>Does it happen in other desktop too (change to TWM / * in ~/.xinitrc)
Does it happen if you chroot to or from your system and then startx
]]>Maybe try the vesa-driver instead of the videodriver you're using at the moment (might not help because it's not only a visual stutter you're describing)
Go through the logs to see if there are any warnings or errors (dmesg and xorg.log to begin with, then skim through '/var/log/')
See what daemons you are running and try disabling them one by one?
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]]>jacko:I can't really tell, because I don't know when this started exactly, because i think this happened before, when connecting to wireless networks, but this now happens more often, even if the network manager is not running, so i guess it's not the problem
rson451: nope
]]>The thing is, I don't know how to narrow this down to what's wrong. nothing abnormal in "top", so it's not a process eating up CPU. Any ideas?
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