What is Xorg?

[pluekiller]

My newly installed ubuntu is suffers from massive slowdowns just by using firefox!

It seems like Xorg is always at 100% when i suffer these slowdowns.

Am i doing anything wrong?

[icanfly0307]

I seriously don't know what's going on but........

to answer your question: Xorg is basically the X window system used in linux. It's the base of the graphical environment for your computer. If X slows down when you're using Firefox, you could try to switch over to a more light weight desktop environment like Fluxbox. Install it by issuing the command:

sudo apt-get install fluxbox

Try to see if this helps.

[FormatSeize]

I seriously don't know what's going on but........

to answer your question: Xorg is basically the X window system used in linux. It's the base of the graphical environment for your computer. If X slows down when you're using Firefox, you could try to switch over to a more light weight desktop environment like Fluxbox. Install it by issuing the command:

sudo apt-get install fluxbox

Try to see if this helps.

I wondered what Xorg was as well, but never really researched it. Under Slackware, there's X11 (or something like that, someone correct me), and the command
startx
will take me to a graphical environment. So is Xorg something that makes the environment that I see when I use Ubuntu?
Also, if I install Fluxbox to try it out, will it be pretty easy to uninstall, or will it be something I wouldn't want to do unless I planned on using it permanently?

[tuahaa]

Wasn't this thread ditched last year?

[icanfly0307]

I seriously don't know what's going on but........

to answer your question: Xorg is basically the X window system used in linux. It's the base of the graphical environment for your computer. If X slows down when you're using Firefox, you could try to switch over to a more light weight desktop environment like Fluxbox. Install it by issuing the command:

sudo apt-get install fluxbox

Try to see if this helps.

btw, what are your system specs?

[Elfy]

I would start with checking whether there is a graphics driver available - look in Hardware Drivers in the System Admin menu

Would be good to have system specs

[pluekiller]

If my system can't handle web browsing smoothly on ubuntu, i'm going back to windows right now

I have a core 2 duo running at 1.9Ghz, 9600M GT, and 2GB of ram..

[Elfy]

So did you look in hardware drivers? There will be a driver there for it I suspect

[pluekiller]

Yes i did... It's already enabled..

[icanfly0307]

WHOA! hold it right there!

don't give up on ubuntu! and don't move back to windows; it's worse.

what's your graphics card model? with system specs like that, ubuntu would be SUPER FAST!

are you using the right device driver?