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Try the tty (ctrl+alt+f1) and see how quickly your inputs respond, its amazing how X11 and wayland (especially) add so much latency

• blunte 9y ago
  Apparently this is it. tty is very fast, although since I have a 4k screen the drawing/scrolling rate is very slow. I recently switched from whatever Ubuntu 17.10 is using (Gnome on Wayland?) to i3 on X.org, and there was no real performance increase that I could see. Do you have any suggestions on how I can get a tty level experience (with the occasional ability to use a web browser), but with low latency? I obviously can't use tty when the screen is native resolution (and the text is miniscule in size).
  • pferde 9y ago
    > although since I have a 4k screen the drawing/scrolling rate is very slow. Add "vga=normal nomodeset" to your kernel parameters, and revel in the speed (and blockiness of the font). :)
  • quantum_magpie 9y ago
    Personally, over the years I find the LXDE to be the most pleasant environment. It puts all those Gnome3, Wayland, KDE atrocities to dust. Haven't tried any other recent DEs, since once I got my hands on LXDE I had no need. Just now I checked the input response in tty and terminator, and I just don't feel any difference at all.
• snaky 9y ago
  That's mostly not X11, but fancy DEs with fancy DE-oriented apps. Try some lightweight window manager with xterm.
  • Izkata 9y ago
    This, definitely. Even on Gnome, using xterm is far more responsive than the default gnome-terminal. I switched years ago because of how much a difference it made for me.
  • ahartmetz 9y ago
    Also try KDE Plasma with default settings, see my other comment.