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Supposedly improvements in hardware acceleration have changed this but IME a window manager with no compositing is way faster than phosh. I use fluxbox and on t

by swiley 6y ago

Supposedly improvements in hardware acceleration have changed this but IME a window manager with no compositing is way faster than phosh. I use fluxbox and on that firefox scrolls in real time for example.

oriesdan 6y ago
Thanks for mentioning it. How does fluxbox works on mobile? Is it basically the same than the desktop on a small resolution, or it can receive phone calls and have a notification bar?
- p4bl0 6y ago
  If it's the compositor that causes the problem, can't it be disabled? I don't know phosh but in Plasma you can disable the compositing from the system settings.
  - oriesdan 6y ago
    Nope, there's no option for that in phosh settings. Actually, it's the compositor (phoc) that starts gnome-session in /usr/bin/phosh. I've just tried to edit the startup script to launch gnome-session directly, but it would refuse to start. It's also a pure wayland system, so it's quite unlike what we're used on desktop.
    - p4bl0 6y ago
      I see, thanks for your explanations :).
    - jhardy54 6y ago
      > It's also a pure wayland system, so it's quite unlike what we're used on desktop. When you say "pure", do you mean "no XWayland"?
      - linmob 6y ago
        All Phosh distributions I’ve come across have Xwayland.
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- swiley 6y ago
  Yes, which means you can actually see the windows for things running in the background which can be nice when your eg reading something from firefox while writing an email. All the phone stuff is handled by chatty and calls, notifications are handled by libnotify, alert sounds are handled by feedbackd etc.