Bug#754651: xwayland: window resizing and scrolling is extremely slow. (upstream works)
On 07/15/2014 04:44 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 15/07/14 10:16, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> Control: reassign -1 xwayland 2:1.15.99.904-1
>>
>> On Du, 13 iul 14, 02:12:54, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote:
>>> Source: xwayland
>>> Version: 2:1.15.99.904
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>
>>> using jessie, with xserver-common and xwayland from sid, i opened
>>> weston/weston-launch. then i opened a terminal and ran xman.
>>>
>>> i resized the window by dragging the corner, but it was very slow, and a
>>> thick black border flickered around the window. i also clicked "Manual
>>> Page" in xman and then tested two finger scrolling in that window (in
>>> windowed mode). however, scrolling was very slow.
>>>
>>> i installed xwayland version 1.15.99.904 from source and i did not
>>> notice this issue.
>>>
>>> would you please make sure that this is not an issue when packaging the
>>> future xwayland 1.16 release?
>
> When 1.16 is uploaded, it will have been rebuilt. I don't know why a rebuild
> helped you, but it's likely that then 1.16 will be fine. Unless you didn't
> rebuild in a clean environment, and you had e.g. GCC 4.8 or something else
> different.
hm. i'm guessing that debian's build system is more stable than mine.
the only significant difference i can think of is that the debian
xwayland package comes with a number of patches. perhaps one (or more)
of those patches plays nice with X, but not Xwayland.
-andrew
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