Things done in xfce4 are slow, why?

[fronclynne]

sorry I can't provide better help from back here

Well i'll look into the error.

I did swap cards and configure for agp. Glxgears was reporting 300fps on my 64mb card and after the swap is now reporting:

5812 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1162.334 FPS
7227 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1445.061 FPS
7264 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1452.633 FPS

So performance did improve with the new card.

Those are unreal numbers, I get around 130fps (and keep in mind that das Kino ist 24fps, & even good quality video is only about 75fps). There's a reason they warn against using glxgears as a benchmark. For me, I get slow window movement and refresh because of processor contention (# make -j3 buildworld for instance (turion x2 @ @GHz 4G ram etc etc)), but in your case, I don't know. If fiddling with rendering and accel doesn't fix it, you need to look at maybe what's actually running. daemons, applications, etc.