7:42 a.m.
Hi
I got a Raspberry Pi 4 board with 8 GB RAM today, and tried both KDE
Plasma and Fedora Workstation images on it. While the workstation (with
Gnome) works pretty well, the Plasma desktop is quite sluggish when it
comes to graphics. Moving windows around a bit fast, tool-tip popups on
taskbar elements etc. are noticeably sluggish and have significant
response delays. Gnome desktop does not have any such issues.
Both are running the same kernel versions. But they are two different
images (both downloaded from Fedora website), so I don't know if there
are any relevant differences in the pre-installed packages.
Any ideas on how to rectify this? I was on KDE/X11 most of the time, and
during a brief testing with KDE/Wayland, it didn't fare any better.
Thanks,
Syam
8:28 a.m.
On Mon, 2023-02-20 at 19:12 +0530, Syam Krishnan wrote:
Hi
I got a Raspberry Pi 4 board with 8 GB RAM today, and tried both KDE
Plasma and Fedora Workstation images on it. While the workstation
(with
Gnome) works pretty well, the Plasma desktop is quite sluggish when
it
comes to graphics. Moving windows around a bit fast, tool-tip popups
on
taskbar elements etc. are noticeably sluggish and have significant
response delays. Gnome desktop does not have any such issues.
Both are running the same kernel versions. But they are two different
images (both downloaded from Fedora website), so I don't know if
there
are any relevant differences in the pre-installed packages.
Any ideas on how to rectify this? I was on KDE/X11 most of the time,
and
during a brief testing with KDE/Wayland, it didn't fare any better.
Plasma 5.27 has just been released to the stable repo. Have you tried
that?
poc
7:28 a.m.
On 20/02/23 19:58, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Plasma 5.27 has just been released to the stable repo. Have you tried
that?
Yes. I had done an update yesterday and it is indeed 5.27.
I disabled blur desktop effect and that has resulted in some improvement
in graphics performance.
Syam
7:41 a.m.
On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 18:58 +0530, Syam Krishnan wrote:
On 20/02/23 19:58, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> Plasma 5.27 has just been released to the stable repo. Have you
> tried
> that?
Yes. I had done an update yesterday and it is indeed 5.27.
I disabled blur desktop effect and that has resulted in some
improvement in graphics performance.
As this is a Raspberry Pi, I assume it doesn't have a GPU, so anything
with a graphics load will probably be slow, including the desktop
itself. You might be better with a more lightweight DE.
poc
11:04 a.m.
On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 13:41 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 18:58 +0530, Syam Krishnan wrote:
> On 20/02/23 19:58, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> > Plasma 5.27 has just been released to the stable repo. Have you
> > tried
> > that?
>
> Yes. I had done an update yesterday and it is indeed 5.27.
>
> I disabled blur desktop effect and that has resulted in some
> improvement in graphics performance.
As this is a Raspberry Pi, I assume it doesn't have a GPU, so anything
with a graphics load will probably be slow, including the desktop
itself. You might be better with a more lightweight DE.
GNOME has some heuristics to disable fancy graphical effects in some
cases (e.g. running in a VM). That may be kicking in on this system,
and accounting for at least some of the difference if KDE doesn't do
that?
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12:29 a.m.
I found this for a virtual machine, maybe it can help.
https://blog.thomasdamgaard.dk/posts/2022/04/15/disable-desktop-effects-i...
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