Laptop has an 1135g7 and 24gb of RAM, it should be perfectly fine with any DE, it feels snappy with sway on Mint, and every other distro I've tried with no issues, even with GNOME as my DE on Gentoo, Debian, and Ubuntu. After installing sway and switching to it, the laptop seemingly has no more issues. The power profile I had it set to was "balanced". If anyone has any ideas would love to hear them.
#Laptop being slow for seemingly no reason only on cinnamon.
jovial steppe
vernal knot
Please post your system info
inxi -Fxxxz
from the terminal
jovial steppe
here
pallid cosmos
here
It's because you use Wayland session... On login scree, click the Cinnamon icon on the password field dialog, and select the default session.
jovial steppe
It's because you use Wayland session... On login scree, click the Cinnamon icon ...
nono this is from sway
i switched to sway because cinnamon is acting weird
i was on x11 in cinnamon
im not that stupid
jovial steppe
jovial steppe
Maybe the problem is Wayland...
again, i only have issues on cinnamon which is x11
pallid cosmos
Ah ok...
jovial steppe
sway works fine
pallid cosmos
Did you have enabled some UI scaling with cinnamon ?
jovial steppe
nope it was at 1.0x
fractional scaling would only mess up scaling not make my laptop slow as shit
i know cuz ive used it lmao
it worked kinda
never tried on my laptop cuz i have a 1080p display tho
pallid cosmos
I see your display is configured with 158 Dpi... Maybe it's sway specific, anayway it's not common Dpi
jovial steppe
ok, maybe that's why Dpi is high
my desktop is 160 ppi lol
you can no longer see pixels
they become nonexistent
pallid cosmos
yeah... you no longer see small text neither...
jovial steppe
me when scaling:
its practically impossible to use on less than 150%
or 1.5x
4k is yummy
pallid cosmos
and so your cinnamon was at 100%, and you had problems
pallid cosmos
You can return to Cinnamon rn or you completely removed it ?
pallid cosmos
With Cinnamon, it is always slow, or only randomly, after a time ?
jovial steppe
always a bit slow, sometimes more for no apparent reason
even was checking with btop to make sure i didnt have a perf leak or something
which i have had an issue with
but that was psmouse on arch
felt similar
but the cpu was at like 5% usage so
obv isnt the issue
pallid cosmos
Did you tryed to disable Vsync in nvidia settings ?
pallid cosmos
wait...
jovial steppe
what...
pallid cosmos
this inxi si too long
pallid cosmos
yes, I know, I was looking at mine... terrible morning
ok, so integrated gpu... I have no idea why you have this
you tried Cinnamon software redenring ?
jovial steppe
you tried Cinnamon software redenring ?
i havent tried software rendering yet
i can tmr but its late rn
pallid cosmos
k
vernal knot
Try using xe driver instead of i915, see if it performs better. For that, use kernel parameter
i915.force_probe=!9a49 xe.force_probe=9a49
Confirm with
inxi -Gxxx
Otherwise, disable effects in cinnamon, see if that improves things, also try cinnamon wayland, although it's still experimental. And try kernel parameter
i915.enable_psr=0
with i915 driver.
@jovial steppe
jovial steppe
Try using xe driver instead of i915, see if it performs better. For that, us...
i dont think its a graphics driver issue considering every other DE and wm works fine
but ill try it tmr
ill know if software rendering does the trick
if it works then ill try xe driver but xe driver is still in beta
me no likey beta software
vernal knot
No, it's not gpu issue per se, it's the cinnamon compositor problem, probably start with
i915.enable_psr=0
it seems to fix this sort of issue for many
jovial steppe
No, it's not gpu issue per se, it's the cinnamon compositor problem, probably ...
no im saying if its a gpu driver issue other DE's would have issues
software rendering would isolate it
cinnamon having issues would mean theres something fighting my gpu drivers which could happen
software rendering would also fix that
vernal knot
But software rendering basically means not using gpu at all
jovial steppe
exactly
if its a gpu OR a gpu driver issue software rendering would rule it out
my cpu is fast enough for basic software rendering so ill try it
vernal knot
Alright, my bet is on
i915.enable_psr=0
though