On further investigation it appears to be an issue with XFCE. I switched
to KDE and it is working as expected.
On 12/30/25 22:35, Ben Hutton wrote:
Hi,
I have an odd problem since doing a pkg upgrade earlier today. Since
I've done that my laptop is painfull slow in XFCE but only when using
the laptop without external displays. As soon as I plug in an external
display it runs at normal performance. After disconnecting the
external display it takes 1-2 seconds to respond to general typing and
also task switching. Dragging windows around is also painfully slow.
If I switch to a tty it is performant again as well.
Note this on a Thinkpad P1 Gen3 running hybrid graphics using both
Intel and Nvidia. From memory when using external screens it switches
to the NVidia GPU and uses the Intel when no external displays are
attached (at least that's my understanding).
I have tried upgrading FreeBSD to the latest current. I have also
force upgraded all packages.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards
Ben
