On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:22:39AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote > Last night my laptop began having two problems. > > First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no > output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about > 7-8s, and then the mouse cursor doesn't change from the I-beam back to the > pointer for another 2s or so. Pasting into urvxt seems instantaneous, although > last night I did have some issues with a tab or urxvt where I had ssh'ed into > a server running irssi in screen -- the backspace key seemed to be stuck, but > that stopped after I did a ^A^D and then "screen -dx 17169.pts-3.server".
Run a "top" session, and see what's eating cpu/memory. > Second, there is an image from Workspace 1 showing up on top of the app > running in Workspace 2. Are you running an Nvidia video card with their proprietary driver? Youtube, even static/paused Youtube images would cause that on such a setup I once had. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
