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Yeah, I'm baffled this is so bad. Especially in Linux. Surely moving the mouse should take precedence over everything else? Even highlighting the thing you move
by mcv 2y ago
Yeah, I'm baffled this is so bad. Especially in Linux. Surely moving the mouse should take precedence over everything else? Even highlighting the thing you move the mouse over shouldn't slow down the mouse cursor itself.
I recently had a problem with extreme mouse slowdowns on KDE/Plasma 6 on X11 with NVidia. I noticed the slowdown was particularly extreme over the tabs of my browser.
The fix, in case anyone else also has this problem, is to disable OpenGL flipping. I have no idea what OpenGL flipping does, but disabling it (in nvidia-settings and in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) fixed the problem.
I'd love it if someone could explain why. Or why this isn't the default.
- kllrnohj 2y agoOpenGL flipping is iirc the weird name nvidia gives for vsync. Disabling it means you're going to have tearing artifacts, hence why it's not the default.
- mcv 2y agoBut why does it slow down the mouse? Is there no way to get both? Maybe I should try if Wayland gets me both, although at the moment it just gives me a black screen.