Fluxbox hanging in Absolute Linux
Hi all. I just installed Absolute Linux 12.0.5 on an IBM Aptiva and am modestly impressed so far. I like that it's built on Slackware.
I'm having two main issues: 1. When starting X (icewm), a dialog pops up immediately saying "Applet quit without ever creating a widget". How can I tell what applet it's talking about? It's using Rox, and some googling says that the desktop is locked. Not sure what that means or how to fix it. Ideas? 2. After a while of clicking, dragging and playing around, the whole system freezes and won't recover without a hard reboot. This is fairly consistent. I probably haven't gone more than 15 minutes in icewm before the system hangs. I tend to think that it's an issue with the mouse, because it freezes only when I'm actively clicking away. It's a Kensington USB mouse using the default USB drivers configured during setup. I've been trying different things in xorgconfig, but it's more guesswork than science. I don't mind trying things to stabilize the system, I'm just not sure where to start. Any advice is appreciated. Joey |
Actually, when I try fluxbox, there's no "Applet quit..." warning, but the system still hangs after a while of messing around. Hmmmm.
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What kind of video card does your computer have and what driver are you using with it? And what kind of network connection and drivers are you using? What apps are you using when "actively clicking away"?
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Thanks for the quick response. The system seems to be using a mobo video chip (no Video PCI card). xorg.conf section "Device" shows:
Identifier "Card0" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "82810 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]" BusID "PCI:0:1:0" Right now, it's networkless. I need to pick up a NIC this weekend. I've had various lockups. From using Firefox, to logging out. But I get a consistent lockups whenever I try to resize a window by clicking and dragging on a corner. BTW, sorry about the confusing subject line. I thought I was using fluxbox initially but it was icewm. I then edited .xinitrc to try fluxbox and the system froze shortly thereafter as well. Most of my past experience (extremely limited) has been with KDE and gnome. Thanks again for any help. |
I'm assuming you didn't have such problems in KDE or Gnome. I've had similar experiences - little things that work flawlessly in KDE cause problems when I switch to Fluxbox. Often it has to do with my network driver, but that's obviously not your case.
Which version of Firefox are you using? 2.0.0.0 had some memory issues that led to system hangs. Do you know what background programs are running? Is there anything in .xinitrc besides starting the wm? And can you post the output of the top command? Crashing when resizing a window sounds like a graphics problem. Have you tried using a different video driver? In Xorg.conf change Driver "intel" to Driver "vesa" and see what happens. Quote:
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My past experience with KDE and Gnome was back on Slackware 10, I haven't tried them on this box. The firefox in use is 2.0.0.4.
Sorry about this lengthy post, but I'll try to give you as much information as possible. I did try changing "intel" to "vesa", but X windows just flickered and jumped around. BTW, is there any keystroke or something that could let me kill an X session if it locks up or is unviewable and return to a terminal (I have tried Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc, and Ctrl+Alt+Fn? .xinitrc: Code:
#!/bin/sh Code:
top - 14:21:18 up 58 min, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.01 Code:
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