Need help understanding X server freeze

[Thomas Lübking]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 12:38:52AM +0530, jeetu.golani at gmail.com wrote:
>Hi Thomas,
>
>Thank you for replying. I truly am at wits end here and appreciate any help.
>
>>Can you calso cause this with something >simple as "xterm" (ie, running
>>gnome terminal under xfce likely won't >help much)
>
>If I X forward something simple like xterm over my Retroshare tunnel via
>SSH, it works perfectly without any hiccups. Even if I try to run say a du
>on / just to generate a lot of scrolling traffic.
>
>It's only when I run something like gnome-calculator or gedit that the
>whole desktop hags up at some point down the line usually when I have
>pressed a button or tried to trigger a menu or dialog box.

Ie. gtk3 issue (so far), maybe GL?
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 gedit

If this works, I'd suspect LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE to be the key.

Cheers,
Thomas