[lug] Help with window manager "lockups"

[Nate Duehr]

Michael J. Hammel wrote:

>> You should be able to see if this is the problem by using SSH to log
>> into the FC9 machine or switching to a text terminal, then do "ps xa" to
>> find the metacity process, then "strace -p [metacity-pid]".  If you see
>> it spamming write and SIGPIPE, this is the problem.
> 
> Excellent.  I love it when there is something to see that *shows* the
> problem.  At least that should tell me if pulseaudio is the culprit.
> FYI, I switched to XFce on this box so I assume I should see the same
> thing with xfwm4.

strace is so cool -- I never even thought of doing that, though... why 
does my brain not "see" the obvious?  Bothers me sometimes...

Nate