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galiyosha

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2005-08-01

Posts: 22

Xfce4 annoyances

Hello,

Xfce4 is still my favourite DE, but two absolutely annoying things are happening to me that I can't resolve:

1. "Unsuccessful" drag'n'drop freezes the whole computer
When I accidentally drag something and consequently drop it somewhere it has no significance -- like draging a link in Firefox instead of just clicking on it -- the whole machine freezes for tens of seconds, before the icon of a dragged document "flies" back to its origin...

2. Save File dialog frozen
When the Save File dialog pops up, for example when choosing a file name and location for saving a download, it is sometimes "frozen" and it takes another ones or tens of seconds for it to unfreeze so I can write or click anywhere in it. I originally thought dead network mounts cause this, but it happens when nothing remote is mounted as well...

Does anyone have any idea how to cope with these things?

Other than switching DE, of course. I'm currently trying KDE but I think I already had enough of it...

Gullible Jones

Member

Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Xfce4 annoyances

Are you using Shadowhand's xfce4-svn packages?

BTW, if you have problems with X freezing up on you, try enabling magic sysrq (in /etc/sysctl.conf) - that will allow you to terminate misbehaving apps.

galiyosha

Member

From: Slovakia

Registered: 2005-08-01

Posts: 22

Re: Xfce4 annoyances

Are you using Shadowhand's xfce4-svn packages?

No, I wasn't even aware of the fact that there are some. Going to try them immediately, thanks for the tip!

BTW, if you have problems with X freezing up on you, try enabling magic sysrq (in /etc/sysctl.conf) - that will allow you to terminate misbehaving apps.

I didn't know about this one as well. Thanks again!