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xrxr

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Registered: 2015-08-01

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Drag and drop return animation chunky in Firefox

Hi!

I'm running i3 and Xorg. When I drag a link in Firefox and release it on an area that doesn't accept drops, or hit escape, the dragged item is animated to return it's original location. That animation is noticeably chunky and slow. Is there a way for me to make it go smoother and faster or disable the animation all together?

Is this a GTK+2 configuration issue? I searched around and couldn't find anyone with the same issue, hence this post.

Side note: I switched to Arch 4 months ago from Windows and I'm really liking it!

Last edited by xrxr (2015-08-01 19:19:29)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: Drag and drop return animation chunky in Firefox

If it's laggy or slow, then it is a problem with your graphics driver, configuration or general performance. In some cases, it is just the lack of composite features of a window manager. i3, which is by the way a great choice, does not come with composite clutter by default. Now do some research:

- Is your video card configured correctly? Is this the only problematic animation?
- Look up the "composite" chapter of the Xorg wiki article.
- What research on the matter have you done so far? A google query for "firefox turn off animation"? What was the result?

There are two quick fixes you can apply in the meantime:
1. During the animation, blink your eyes rapidly. Your brain has (under normal circumstances) some interpolation features and will interprete motion behind a rapid shutter effect as seamless. You might want to blink in steps of whole-numbered factors of your screen refresh rate to prevent tearing.
2. Stop dragging links where they don't belong.

xrxr

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Registered: 2015-08-01

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Re: Drag and drop return animation chunky in Firefox

I don't think it's lag, the time between each pause is very stable.

It is also the only application that has this issue.  I tried running the (gtk3) code from https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/DragNDropTutorial and the return animation is very smooth.

Other animations in Firefox are smooth too, e.g. dragging tabs around in the tab bar

I already tried running Xcompmgr, it didn't help.

Last edited by xrxr (2015-08-01 21:23:09)

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

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Re: Drag and drop return animation chunky in Firefox

I'm unsure, but I think I remember seeing the same sort of animation behavior on Windows. It might actually be programmed like that into Firefox, meaning everything works correctly and that's just how things look like.

xrxr

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Registered: 2015-08-01

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Re: Drag and drop return animation chunky in Firefox

I just tried in Windows 10 with FF39, the dragged item disappear immediately after the drop, i.e, there is no animation.

Google Chrome under Arch also doesn't have a return animation.

It is definitely possible that it is working as intended, but I would like to turn it off if possible.