Denis wrote: > I tried a few things today: > > 1) rebuilt all x11-libs, media-libs, and anything I could think of > that would be related to x11-libs (such as gtk+, qt...) > > 2) downgraded to xorg-server-1.5 > > Neither of these things helped. Alan's hypothesis sounds plausible, > but I don't even know which package to point fingers at! Probably > it's the Mathematica interface itself, which is horribly old by now, > but I cannot upgrade it at this time. As I said, dragging the > scrollbar down works fine, but you drag the scroll bar up, and in a > few seconds X gets zapped. I tried instead clicking above or below > the scroll bar to avoid dragging. That is a tad better, but after a > few times, it goes down again... > > The weird thing is that I never had this problem before doing the > massive lib-xcb upgrade, and obviously the xorg-server doesn't seem to > be helping or hurting anything, so I went back to xorg-server 1.6. > > Is there any procedure out there about de-Xifying your system? I > don't have the time right now to do all this, but I am just wondering > if some people have removed everything X-related from their system and > started anew without completely wrecking the box... > > >
I would take a look at the world file and remove everything X related. A --depclean should then remove everything X related. Keep in mind, that could be a huge amount of stuff to re-install. I would make binaries of *some* things that you know would not affect the programs you are having issues with. Say for example OOo or some other large packages that take a while to compile. You can then use the -k option to reinstall them. Naturally, I wouldn't save anything related to X itself. I would recompile them from scratch. I wish I had better ideas or a quick fix. Dale :-) :-)
