[SOLVED] Firefox doesn't respond until i3bar clock updates. Sometimes

kibartas · 2019-09-17 14:30:34

Hello, I've recently reinstalled Arch Linux on my Acer Aspire 3, because I had too much junk on it.

Since the installation my firefox has started behaving weirdly. Sometimes, not always, when scrolling, firefox doesn't respond to scroll key presses, and the scrollbar doesn't work too. That stops after my i3bar updates to new time. I've tried this with 5s intervals, 1s times and 20s times. When using 5s intervals it stops semi-often, when using 1s it lags all the time and in case of 20s it happens around once a minute.

My question would be, how can this even be related, and am I stupid to think that it is related, and if not, what should I do about it? Also, I don't know what logs should I provide, so I can, if needed. Thanks in advance.

Last edited by kibartas (2019-09-17 15:50:31)

ewaller · 2019-09-17 14:47:32

What is your video card? What driver?
Xorg or Weston?
If Xorg, Are you running a compositor ?
What is your Window Manager?

V1del · 2019-09-17 14:50:32

Unlikely to be related, what hardware and drivers? If using xf86-video-intel try without.

kibartas · 2019-09-17 15:04:18

V1del wrote:

Unlikely to be related, what hardware and drivers? If using xf86-video-intel try without.

Okay, after uninstalling xf86-video-intel my X display manager doesn't launch, because of a faulty .conf file.

The contents of it are:

Section "Device"
	Identifier "Intel Graphics"
	Driver	"intel"
	Option	"Backlight" "intel_backlight"
EndSection

What should I do about that?

Last edited by kibartas (2019-09-17 15:05:22)

kibartas · 2019-09-17 15:07:00

ewaller wrote:

What is your video card? What driver?
Xorg or Weston?
If Xorg, Are you running a compositor ?
What is your Window Manager?

My card is Intel HD Graphics 520. I think I'm using the xf86-video-intel driver.
Xorg.
I'm not sure what is a compositor, but I'd wager to say that I'm not.
I3

ewaller · 2019-09-17 15:10:17

Delete (or move) that config file and try again. This will cause the system to use the modesetting driver. This is generally the recommended configuration, and I find it to be rock solid on my system.

kibartas · 2019-09-17 15:16:48

ewaller wrote:

Delete (or move) that config file and try again. This will cause the system to use the modesetting driver. This is generally the recommended configuration, and I find it to be rock solid on my system.

Okay, but that makes my xbacklight not work. The .conf file is specifically for xbacklight to be usable.
Now when I type in xbacklight in the terminal it returns 'No outputs have backlight property'.

ewaller · 2019-09-17 15:23:48

What is the output of find /sys/class/backlight ?

V1del · 2019-09-17 15:28:29

Use a more modern backlight handler like light (though that requires your user to be in the video group since recent updates FWIW)

kibartas · 2019-09-17 15:29:39

ewaller wrote:

What is the output of find /sys/class/backlight ?

   find /sys/class/backlight
/sys/class/backlight
/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight

ewaller · 2019-09-17 15:37:26

I am with V1del on this. xbacklight is a bit long in the tooth and does not work with the modesetting drtiver.
You might try light. I use my own, home grown utility which I can post if you like.

In i3, you will want to bind the brightness up/dowm keys to commands that increment and decrement the backlight.

Did the modesetting driver solve the other issue?

If you want to continue with the Intel driver, you might try a compositor like compton

kibartas · 2019-09-17 15:48:44

ewaller wrote:

I am with V1del on this. xbacklight is a bit long in the tooth and does not work with the modesetting drtiver.
You might try light. I use my own, home grown utility which I can post if you like.
In i3, you will want to bind the brightness up/dowm keys to commands that increment and decrement the backlight.
Did the modesetting driver solve the other issue?
If you want to continue with the Intel driver, you might try a compositor like compton

Uninstalling the driver did solve the issue. I'll try looking into different backlight managers. Thanks for the help. Closed!

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[SOLVED] Firefox doesn't respond until i3bar clock updates. Sometimes

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