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Pizio

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2017-03-30

Posts: 41

Sudden slowdowns of the desktop and related activities

Hello,
I am using Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.33 - info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia - base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy. For a few days now, I have been having problems typing using the XFCE terminal. Once opened, typing becomes slow and impossible to manage.
In addition, when I right-click on a file on the desktop, the pop-up window that appears tends to flash or even disappear. Similarly, when I drag a window, other open windows often overlap without me touching them.
I updated the NVIDIA drivers to version 590.48.01, thinking it was a graphics card issue, and updated the kernel to version 6.8.0-90-generic x86_64 bits, but without success.
Even now, when using xed, typing is slow, and I have to wait for each character to be entered. Do you have any advice?
Thank you.

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 947

Re: Sudden slowdowns of the desktop and related activities

Is there something using resources? What does htop tell you?

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Pizio

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2017-03-30

Posts: 41

Re: Sudden slowdowns of the desktop and related activities

Here what:
https://postimg.cc/hzHM4m5x

Last edited by Pizio (2026-01-27 16:01:33)

GlenS

Member

Registered: 2024-10-20

Posts: 13

Re: Sudden slowdowns of the desktop and related activities

The 590 and 580 drivers gave me flickering issues.
Currently using nvidia 570.211.01 driver with no problems.

System:
  Host: XuNoble Kernel: 6.8.0-100-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: Xubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)
CPU:
  Info: quad core Intel Core i5-6500 [MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 800
    min/max: 800/3600
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] driver: nvidia
    v: 570.211.01
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
    resolution: 1920x1080
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 570.211.01
    renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2

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System:
  Host: XuNoble Kernel: 6.8.0-100-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: Xubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)