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draner

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Registered: 2017-09-17

Posts: 2

Arch Linux cinnamon animation is laggy.

I have been using linux for a long time. A couple of months back i switched to arch linux. Now i installed cinnamon on top of it. But the animation of right click windows and all other animations are lagging. My laptop has a geforce 940 graphics card. But i installed the nouveau driver instead of installing the proprietary drivers.Is it the problem? Here is the output of inxi -SCG

System:    Host: epsilon Kernel: 4.12.8-2-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.4.4  Distro: Arch Linux
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5-5200U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2700 MHz 1: 900 MHz 2: 899 MHz 3: 840 MHz 4: 820 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500
           Card-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940M]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.3) drivers: modesetting,nouveau
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.01hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2)
           version: 4.5 Mesa 17.1.7

Any help is appreciated!

Last edited by draner (2017-09-17 22:28:10)

circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 639

Re: Arch Linux cinnamon animation is laggy.

Check 'Bumblebee' and 'Prime' in the wiki and see if either of those help.  I have a feeling everything is being rendered by the intel card, which is why everything is so slow.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: Arch Linux cinnamon animation is laggy.

Everything is rendered by the intel card, this much is fact. However it should usually suffice for compositing performance to use the intel card.

@draner
You might have been using the xf86-video-intel driver in your previous experiences. Although it's usefulness  is somewhat controversial depending on the usecase, you might want to give installing that a shot.