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Noticeable performance impact when changing the wallpaper #300

Open florianstancioiu opened 4 years ago

florianstancioiu commented 4 years ago

Version of Variety:

0.8.0-dev1

Describe the bug

Note: It's not a bug per se. The act of switching from one wallpaper to another has a noticeable impact on the performance of my computer, I think it shouldn't be noticeable at all. The computer freezes for a brief period, like one maybe two seconds when the images are being swapped (not longer).

Context

It happens most of the time, that's the one reason I stopped using it last time. I don't know if it's gonna matter but my monitor resolution is 2560 x 1080 and the wallpapers have the same resolution.

To Reproduce

  1. Add 2560 x 1080 wallpapers
  2. Enable Variety
  3. When the wallpaper is changed, the system freezes for a brief moment

Attach Variety's log file

I don't think it's applicable here, I can update the issue with it if you guys need it.

Desktop environment and version

Gnome 3.28.2

OS name and version

Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS \n \l

NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS" VERSION_ID="18.04" HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

Hardware information | sudo lshw -short (edited) processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1067 MHz (0.9 ns) display GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] (4GiB)

meetnick commented 4 years ago

I am experiencing the same issue!

I'm also on Ubuntu 18.04.4 using Gnome and nvidia GEFORCE proprietary drivers.

CPU intel Core i7 8550U 8GB DDR4 display nVidia GEFORCE MX150 (4GB GDDR)

gchamon commented 4 years ago

Can also confirm this:

Arch Linux KDE, 64 Bit, LTS Kernel, Python 3.8

changemenemo commented 4 years ago

happening for me too fedora 33 i7 7700k gefore driver and I think it's related to gnome somehow. I don't seem to have this kind of problems in VM with xfce

kbarbora commented 2 years ago

Same on Manjaro Xfce4 and Xubuntu 20.04 In addition on Manjaro the wallpaper flickers several times when is not time to change to wallpaper