<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> I have the same font size problem with Xfce <IMG SRC="cid:1145348273.8405.6.camel@localhost.localdomain" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":-)" BORDER="0"> This isn't a normal gnome problem. This is a slow down and gradual chewing of the swap file, with only 2-3 normal apps running. I have 1GB real RAM and this problem's only occured in the last 1-2 weeks. On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:15 -0400, Me - Atlantic wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:53 -0500, C Hamel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 17 April 2006 06:02, ruscook wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > As you can see, xorg has decided to use 200mega byte of virtual memory > > and evolution and epiphany have also gone mad. At the same time I've > > lost the use of the shift and control keys i.e. they don't modify other > > keys at all but alt still works. - A reboot of X i.e. ctrl-alt-backspace > > fixes this. > > > > Here's the top output for these apps. > > > > 8228 root 15 0 200m 22m 5384 S 22.4 2.3 49:11.02 Xorg > > 7523 ruscook 15 0 148m 48m 12m S 3.5 4.8 5:40.23 epiphany > > 7527 ruscook 15 0 234m 72m 16m S 0.2 7.2 0:37.08 > > evolution-2.6 > > > > Does anyone else have this problem? > > </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > At the risk of sounding like the proverbial 'broken record' --what's a > record??-- I discovered some time back that if one is using klipper, it is > probably a good idea to disable the 'Prevent empty clipboard' setting. The > behaviour you describe is along the line of what I was experiencing prior to > disabling it. KDE has had a long-standing problem with this, running over > several releases. > > If you're not running klipper, please accept my apologies/condolences. ;-) > > FWIW... > - -- > ...CH > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFERABG6n1LutVYpQARAqA9AJ9bdI9uA823z4jsBZrSJgaWERUOTACgs+IR > s0Up5lBydBHfhatRVoyD/V4= > =IDrp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > If you're running Ubuntu, then, yes. My laptop slowed to a crawl with only gnome, firefox, and evolution running... The solution? I switched my desktop to fluxbox on the laptop... loads are an order of magnitude faster, and response is equally as impressive... Now, if I could just get fluxbox fonts to be large enough to be seen with the naked eye, I'd be much happier </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Kind Regards Russell ================== www.windsorcycles.com.au sales@windsorcycles.com.au ph. 02 4577 3209 bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Kind Regards Russell ================== www.windsorcycles.com.au sales@windsorcycles.com.au ph. 02 4577 3209 bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>