cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19442327

It’s a known bug from upstream mutter. A fix is being worked on and there’s a PPA with the updated packages by the Ubuntu developer working on the fix. It resolved the problem on my end.

  • Possibly linux
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    221 days ago

    Gnome “performs” just as well as anything else. In fact, it is better than Xfce4 in some ways as it is Wayland based.

    I’m not sure why you think gnome is somehow this bloated desktop that lags and is slow. I’ve been using gnome for quite some time and it has never been what you describe. Gnome isn’t any heavier than anything else when it comes to IO. You seem to have just arbitrarily decided that gnome is slow without much in the way of evidence.

    Xfce4 is probably going to be lighter weight overall than gnome or KDE. However, it isn’t this magical desktop and if your computer is bound up by a drawing text and icons on the display then Xfce4 is not going to help you. KDE and Gnome are both a little ram heavy but that’s because they are much bigger desktops.

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      121 days ago

      However, it isn’t this magical desktop and if your computer is bound up by a drawing text and icons on the display then Xfce4 is not going to help you. KDE and Gnome are both a little ram heavy but that’s because they are much bigger desktops.

      Exactly, they are bigger thus require more resources and will run slow on older hardware as many people complain. I personally don’t feel that GNOME is very noticeable slower but, I do believe there’s an extra very short delay when windows are to be drawn, on my main desktop because of it’s larger size but due to the fact that everything is forcefully animated. The DE kinda gets in my way with those animations instead of just click > apear like Xfce does.

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        121 days ago

        Xfce4 is a good desktop just like Gnome is a good desktop. They are just different.