help with XFCE Xorg!

[letian]

recently I've downloaded XFCE desktop environment on to my suse 11.2, cause i like it that much, unfortunately when i login into xfce after some time my xorg.org process starts to eat 98% of my CPU, don't know why, I turned off composition and other effects in my KDE and XFCE, but nothing helped, can anyone provide a clue ? thank you.

[please_try_again]

The first thing to do is to type top in a terminal to find out which process is eating up your CPU resources.

[letian]

as i mentioned above, its "xorg" - the process, that starts to eat all my cpu up to 99 % after some time, even when my pc is in idle state, this issue is being discussed on some forums, but there is no anything that could help to solve it

[please_try_again]

Well ... In such cases I usually restart X.

You can try to boot in runlevel 3, set the variable WINDOWMANAGER to xfce :
export WINDOWMANAGER=xfce
and startx with startx

It would also make sense to reenable CTRL-ALT-BKSP in order to be able to kill X from the keyboard with:
setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
I put it in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

If the beep bothers you (as it does bother me), you can add:
Option "ZapWarning" "off" in the "ServerFlags" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Once you have that you can start and exit X a couple times and see if the problem persist. You can also look at the running processes with : ps ax and in some log files in /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

It can help to replace the line starting with
xinit $client $clientargs -- $server $display $serverargs
towards the end of /usr/bin/startx with
xinit $client $clientargs -- $server $display $serverargs >> /tmp/Xout.log 2>&1

so X will redirect a bunch of error messages in /tmp/Xout.log. This file might provide indications about what went wrong.

It might look a little bit different for you since I use my own startx

How did you install Xfce ?
The best way to install it is with :

zypper -t pattern xfce

[letian]

thank you a lot, i've installed xfce via yast software manager from the internet depositories while i was in KDE, well, I'm a newbie, so I know only some basic commands for linux, so i do everything i used to do when i was a windows user. thanks again, i'll try it.

[please_try_again]

thank you a lot, i've installed xfce via yast software manager from the internet depositories while i was in KDE

That's fine too.