| 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: | 0.190665 |
| First Submitted: | 2019-07-09 09:35 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-10-22 08:26 (UTC) |
I think you've noticed that revert.patch causes some weird timing issues, i.e. window maximize animation stutter, moving mouse pointer causes stutter in opengl etc. Try this patch. Coupled with revert.patch, it completely fixes all all performance problems for me.
(I think Debian uses it already, and Bionic too)
P.S. Beware, it causes high cpu load when moving mouse pointer around the screen, when coupled with revert.patch. At least it fixes jerkyness.
@m3thodic there were some code changes to mutter which are under review / not upstreamed. The code changes aim to improve performance, reduce memory use and reduce stutters. However, they are not proven to work and they are made for gnome 3.26.x/3.28.1, which may not be compatible with 3.28.2. TLDR ignore them
@Saren Could you please give a quick tl;dr on what you mean by performance bits? Thanks for the package!
Fantastic, thank you!
Maybe its good idea to bump commit to atleast 8286557a0555058440536e88393fda445d49d399
Updated to 3.28. revert.patch is back and I updated the code surrounding to the patch. Luckily it works. Also added dependency for 'gnome-shell>=3.28' 'gnome-shell<3.29' to prevent future GNOME breakage like I had.
Maybe temporarily but returned to patch instead git revert.
I got gnome 3.28.0 from "testing" now, but no update to this package. I tried modifying the PKGBUILD to make it build from 3.28 commit, but the revert didn't apply cleanly:
error: could not revert 383ba566b... Call cogl_xlib_renderer_set_threaded_swap_wait_enabled()
With diff:
++<<<<<<< HEAD + / XInitThreads() is needed to use the "threaded swap wait" functionality + * in Cogl - see meta_renderer_x11_create_cogl_renderer(). We call it here + * to hopefully call it before any other use of XLib. + / + XInitThreads(); ++======= + clutter_x11_request_reset_on_video_memory_purge (); ++>>>>>>> parent of 383ba566b... Call cogl_xlib_renderer_set_threaded_swap_wait_enabled()
It seems there has been new changes to the patch we want reverted, however my performance using the official mutter is crap again so it doesn't seem to fix it. There might be a resolution to the conflict that ends up with a correct state, but I haven't looked hard enough at the code to say yet.
And even if it was possible, I'm not sure how to resolve this in PKGBUILD yet, or how to make it use my locally created patch either.
Instead, I'll just post my progress here. ;)
Ideally this would be solved properly, either in mutter, gnome-shell or the nvidia driver, whichever is the culprit.
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/