[openbox] General Problem (3.4.7.2)

[Rob Lewis]

I know this is not very specific, but i am running into the following
problems:

1) I have 4 'workspaces', first for instant messaging and volume control
(pidgin, alsamixer, two terminals), second for xchat, third for gaming,
fourth for firefox. The problem i run into is if i have youtube open in
firefox playing some music, and i game on the third workspace, i get
significant slowdown on the firefox workspace to the point where it is
almost frozen.

Now i have run openbox for the last couple months, and i did not think this
was an problem until i switched to dwm with the same workspace setup, where
i do not experiance the problem. I know this isnt too specific but it made
me wonder :)

2) I noticed switching to dwm that it will acutally update pidgin's away
time by hovering the mouse over any pidgin window (im window, or main buddy
list window), and i also know that openbox does not do this, since i've
experianced 20+ hours of idle time until i finally type a message to myself
or someone on my buddy list.

I am not sure if openbox is meant to do this or not.

My uname -a is as follows:

Arch Linux: Linux localhost 2.6.30-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 17 16:06:45
CEST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux

Any help or insight into the problems would be appreciated :)

-Rob
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