using mplayer if the mplayer window is moved beyond the desktop limits, the whole x server freezes, unable to kill the server neither switch to another tty
Without any deeper knowledge of the problem details, I'd say that's definitly a problem with either X or mplayer. I fail to see how Xfce would be involved here.
I definitely second what BEnny said. It's probably a bug in the xv driver in Xorg, not something related to xfce. BTW, how do you move the mplayer windows beyond limits? Can you clarify?
> BTW, how do you move the mplayer windows beyond limits? Can you clarify? > grabing the window by title bar and moving the window in a way a part of it becomes unseen...sorry bad english, bad explanations
Ok. But the remark remains, it's not a bug with xfce, but with Xorg. There is nothing we (ie xfce developpers) can do about it, you should report this to xorg mailing list: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org HTH Olivier.
ok what's strange is that i've never had this problem with gnome
personally i had that problem when the compositor was enabled, but it was months ago
i've disabled the compositor and actually i don't have this problem anymore
Glad you found a workaround, but still, I think you should report that on Xorg mailing list to check if it's known issue. What video card do you have? Do you run an open source driver? A bit aog googling gives some results but nothing really precise.