Created attachment 2772 ~/.xsession-errors This is a bug report for xubuntu 9.10. For some time xfdesktop takes forever to load (3-5 minutes) and then eats cpu (100%) for about ten minutes *every* time I log in. There are many xfdesktop processes (up to 15!) in this case. In this time the system is hardly usable. There has been some discussion about this in a ubuntu forum at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1162848 but with no real conclusion. Perhaps the problem is related to ~/.xsession-errors, hence I will include it.
This bug can't be reproduced anymore. If you can still reproduce it with more recent versions of xfdesktop, please re-open this report.