Please try to disable threaded rendering in KWin

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 09:45:23 UTC 2014


On Friday 18 April 2014, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> those who experience problems with KWin/5 (looking at e.g. Vishesh, Aleix,
> Alex) please give a try to run KWin with:
> 
> QSG_RENDER_LOOP=basic
> 
> This disables the threaded rendering in QtQuick. I'm currently using it and
> my experience so far is that the quality is massively improved. I got the
> idea because I am experiencing problems on my main system (IvyBridge) but
> not on my notebook (SandyBridge Mobile). A difference I'm aware of is that
> the threaded rendering is disabled for SandyBridge Mobile.
> 
> Any feedback on positive and negative is appreciated.

Do you think it would make some difference also for other qtquick applications 
like plasma-shell? (some of our weird crash reports kinda look like screwups 
in threaded rendering)

-- 
Marco Martin


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