Breakthrough in xfce -- Settings -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Compositor. Disabled it.
Runs *so* much better On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Boyd <dan...@boydemail.com> wrote: > I just switched to fvwm this morning and it's night-and-day faster than > xfce. Hard to believe it's the same computer. I'm going to have to spend > some quality time with the fvwm manpage because I've never used it much > beyond launching xterm to install another window manager :) > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Edgar Pettijohn <ed...@pettijohn-web.com> > wrote: > >> I don't have any problems with Firefox on -current with Fvwm2. I >> switched to Fvwm because Xfce was getting unmanageable. After about a week >> when I got my config just right it is much easier and faster than Xfce just >> not as pretty. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Apr 18, 2016, at 3:13 PM, Daniel Boyd <dan...@boydemail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks -- I will give xombrero a shot. Definitely need javascript >> support >> > as I am currently composing this in Gmail and do quite a bit of >> > javscript-based web development :) >> > >> >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:31 PM, <arrowscr...@mail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> I think the problem is with firefox itself. >> >> tedu@ wrote a post about this: >> >> http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/firefox-vs-rthreads >> >> >> >> Since the code is so bloated, no one will ever waste time trying to fix >> >> all the issues. Just switch to some other browser, there's plenty of >> >> options. >> >> I'm using Links 2.12 on -stable and it works fine for my needs. But >> >> there's also Xombrero if you need javascript support.
