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PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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craftyguy wrote: post #5
mbrumlow wrote: post #3

Very exciting, but this is very very slow on my x220 compared to xwayland -- running swaywm.

Just curious, are you running the development version of sway 1.0, or the older stable 0.15?

master branch of wlroots + sway (I update nearly ever hour). Sway is the most exciting thing going on right now.

Sway is really fast, I don't think the slowness is a problem with sway. I am wondering if my x220's Intel card is just too slow. I will try shortly on a much faster system.

Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Jonnax wrote: post #6
mbrumlow wrote: post #3

Very exciting, but this is very very slow on my x220 compared to xwayland -- running swaywm.

Isn't that laptop from like 6 years ago? I'd imagine your GPU is very much considered legacy.

I am running webrender under xwayland, and it is super smooth. This system is damn near the best laptop I have ever had. I have replaced the bios with core boot and have a fully encrypted luks disk. I get near 15 hours battery life. All that for the price of $150 + plus a few premium upgrades (ssd, and ips panel).

My T450s cost me ~$2700 new, and it is faster in some cases, but the cost/performance ratio just does not pay off to have such a expensive system these days.

Should also note, that because the x220 has a higher TDP than newer ultrabooks I can get a few things done faster. The last time I tried emacs compiles near 20 seconds faster on the x220 than a T450s.

I also found a neat hack, not related to the x220, but any laptop really. When I am waiting on long compiles I take a compressed air can and turn it upside down and jet the cool liquid into the heat sink. The temp drops and you can shave a bit of time off a compile or what not if you have the wherewithal to continue to deliver small shots of cool fluid. I mostly feel okay doing it because it is only a $150 laptop...

Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Post by colemickens »

mbrumlow wrote: post #7
craftyguy wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious, are you running the development version of sway 1.0, or the older stable 0.15?

master branch of wlroots + sway (I update nearly ever hour). Sway is the most exciting thing going on right now. Sway is really fast, I don't think the slowness is a problem with sway. I am wondering if my x220's Intel card is just too slow. I will try shortly on a much faster system.

I am also running the very latest Sway and have no issues with other Wayland applications. I am seeing the same slowness you describe, as I'd been seeing with the Flatpak nightly Wayland builds. It's also still not respecting my Caps Lock.

I'm waiting to hear from someone running it under GNOME/Wayland before filing bugs, though.

Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Post by craftyguy »

mbrumlow wrote: post #7
craftyguy wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious, are you running the development version of sway 1.0, or the older stable 0.15?

master branch of wlroots + sway (I update nearly ever hour). Sway is the most exciting thing going on right now. Sway is really fast, I don't think the slowness is a problem with sway. I am wondering if my x220's Intel card is just too slow. I will try shortly on a much faster system.

Nice, and I agree!

That's sad though, because it means my x230 probably won't fare any better. Are you using modesetting or the SNA (xf86-video-intel) driver?

edit: don't mind me, it uses modesetting.

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