[wplug] rdesktop slowing down xfree86

[Vanco, Don]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Alexandros Papadopoulos
>Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:06 AM
>To: western PA LUG
>Subject: Re: [wplug] rdesktop slowing down xfree86
>
>
>On Thursday 03 February 2005 22:01, John Harrold wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I've got a guy here using rdesktop to muck around in excel.
>> Periodically (every couple 2-5 minutes) xfree starts sucking up
>> resources and slows everything down. The system load gets upto 2-3
>> and things like KDEs kpanel becomes unresponsive for 30 seconds to a
>> minute. The problem persists on two different computers with very
>> different hardware configurations. Both of the machines are running
>> Debian/Sarge with the latest and greatest updates applied. Has anyone
>> had any similar problems or expirences with or without solutions they
>> would care to share?
>
>Unfortunately I have no experience with rdesktop, but I'm 
>quite a heavy 
>user of VNC to work from Debian to Win9x machines and it's been 
>completely trouble-free (keyboard layouts issues aside - but I guess 
>these don't concern your user).

HIJACK ALERT!
Alex - do you use blackbox as you WM?  If so - is there a fix / KB def,
whatever to get cut-n-paste to work?  I've not needed it too often
(hence my lack of initiative to solve) but figgered I'd ask based on
your comment above..  Is there a better (skinny) WM to run?  I just
started using blackbox years ago and have not deviated since

Don