| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/mutter-performance.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | mutter-performance |
| Description: | A window manager for GNOME | Attempts to improve performances with non-upstreamed merge-requests and frequent stable branch resync |
| Upstream URL: | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter |
| Licenses: | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Groups: | gnome |
| Conflicts: | mutter |
| Provides: | libmutter-15.so, mutter |
| Submitter: | Terence |
| Maintainer: | Terence (Saren, saltyming) |
| Last Packager: | saltyming |
| Votes: | 78 |
| Popularity: | 0.186852 |
| First Submitted: | 2019-07-09 09:35 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-10-22 08:26 (UTC) |
Please take a look here https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-gnome-mutter-performance-patches/71989
Altered to the PKGBUILD to make it work with latest patches inside the 3.30 branch. Also removed the "NVIDIA-fix" which just caused harm and replaced it by patch 281 by Daniel van Vugt.
V4 fixed the last remaining issues.
The difference honestly is quite insane, doesn't really feel like Gnome anymore - in a good way.
Final fix found, thanks to Daniel van Vugt (281.patch)
The revert.patch has to be deleted since it causes more harm than it actually helps.
The 281.patch by Daniel van Vugt fixed the last piece of lag entirely. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/281.patch
Just noticed that with the revert patch the performance maybe still way better than before thanks to the other patches but it's not quite the same inside programs.
With the revert patch applied performance inside programs is amazing but dragging windows stutters at 30fps unless a video or animation is running at 60fps.
I wonder what exactly causes this behavior https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/revert.patch?h=mutter-781835-workaround
Was able to install this patched version after updating the commit numbers in the pkgfile.
What I noticed is that apps like Chrome or Davinci Resolve are now insanely smooth but mutter or at least dragging windows itself is now terribly slow. I think it is locked to 30fps. The cursor itself is running at 60fps all the time. Animations aren't affected either - in fact they are smoother than ever, just dragging windows around while no 60p video or animation is running.
Interestingly enough if there's a video with 60fps playing behind and the foreground window is being dragged around, everything is smooth until I stop playback. If the video only has up to 30fps dragging windows is locked at 30fps again. Moving video players like MPC or VLC is also smooth while playing lower framerate video files.
Will take a look at the individual applied patches and hopefully figure out which one is causing it.
EDIT: The 60p video can even be running on another activity. Will maybe use this as a workaround lol - just kidding. Also noticed that even 8K60p runs perfectly smooth inside Chrome now while before even 4K60p wasn't possible - amazing!
Fixed it by uncommenting the actual NVIDIA fix. Am using the official 415.25 driver here using a 1080TI
build fails with fatal: bad revision for commits 8234efc0 and d2fbb9ff.
commenting them out as stated by Saren enables you to build the package.
@Terence Works now without reverting merge.tool. Thanks a lot mate!
@m110s updated once more, please report if it works.
My instruction with mergetool was a mistake because not everyone has this merge tool...
You can revert it with git config --global --unset merge.tool although it shoudn't have much of an impact at this point.
New error:
error: could not apply 81952da6f... clutter: Fix offscreen-effect painting of clones
hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
hint: and commit the result with 'git commit'
Merging:
clutter/clutter/clutter-paint-volume.c
clutter/tests/conform/meson.build
Normal merge conflict for 'clutter/clutter/clutter-paint-volume.c':
{local}: modified file
{remote}: modified file
The merge tool p4merge is not available as 'p4merge'
earlier I followed you instruction:
git config --global merge.tool p4merge
Pinned Comments
saltyming commented on 2022-03-22 09:37 (UTC) (edited on 2024-10-22 08:27 (UTC) by saltyming)
If you have a problem during any system update with
mutter-performance&gnome-shell-performance, please installmutter&gnome-shellpackages from the main repository and do full upgrade first, then build the performance packages later.If you are using [gnome-unstable] and [extra-testing] repositories, use mutter-performance-unstable
The default patch list includes "Dynamic triple buffering(!1441)", "text-input-v1(!3751)".
Latest Dynamic triple buffering patch has several included MRs from the main development branch to achieve maximum performance.
To enable a specific MR in the Merge Requests List, add an line "_merge_requests_to_use+=('<MR number>')" at the end of PKGBUILD. (Because if you edit the line directly you can be able to end up with merge conflict upon updates.)
You can see some patches' git history here: https://git.saltyming.net/sungmg/mutter-performance-source/
Saren commented on 2018-08-30 14:52 (UTC) (edited on 2020-10-06 05:50 (UTC) by Saren)
If you are getting errors like
fatal: bad revision '73e8cf32'while building this package, refer to PKGBUILD and see which patches caused this. Then, go to the related URLs, replace the commit hashes. If there are conflicts, comment out the patches.Please notify me in comment section if this happens.
The optional performance patches are by default enabled.
A package for gnome-shell performance patches: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-performance/