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sakaki- / gentoo-on-rpi-64bit

Bootable 64-bit Gentoo image for the Raspberry Pi4B, 3B & 3B+, with Linux 5.4, OpenRC, Xfce4, VC4/V3D, camera and h/w codec support, weekly-autobuild binhost
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Sluggish XFCE #16

Closed olle2 closed 7 years ago

olle2 commented 7 years ago

Hi Sakaki, thanks for the new toy! I have tested https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi3-64bit/releases/latest and it certainly works. I think however that its a little bit slow/sluggish, maybe because of XFCE. I have tested https://github.com/bamarni/pi64/releases and https://files.devuan.org/devuan_jessie/embedded/ on the same pi and sdcard and they seem to run faster.

So I need your help to change from XFCE to lxde or lxqt.

Thanks!

sakaki- commented 7 years ago

What particularly is it that appears to run slowly; is it the desktop experience you mean (moving windows round the screen, menu redraws etc)? Or do you mean that apps themselves appear to run slower?

If the former, have you tried turning off display compositing? Select Applications→Settings→Window Manager Tweaks, select the Compositor tab, and untick Enable display compositing.

Of course, it is not difficult to switch to a different desktop - Gentoo has both lxde and lxqt in tree. You just need to unmerge the current xfce4-meta package and emerge either lxde-meta or lxqt-meta and then patch whatever is broken (e.g. lightdm). Doable but in the sort term I don't have bandwidth to support two variants like this. However, if you want to give it a go, please let me know if you experience significant performance improvement.

Best, sakaki

olle2 commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your answer! Its the apps themselves running slowly (particularly VLC and FF) but I'll try the display compositing, and maybe later the unmerging and emerging of desktops. New to Gentoo, so no guaranties! Update: setting compositing to off = faster!