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Make A Choppy Desktop Feel Smooooth

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Re: Make A Choppy Desktop Feel Smooooth

#16 Post by Penguin Skinner »

dbbolton wrote:Has anyone dared to try anything lower than -1 ?
Yeah ... since moving to KDE4, I've found a nice value of -8 makes a noticeable improvement in gui desktop performance. This is on a single core P4, 3.4Ghz. With compositing turned off, or running a lighter desktop like openbox, I can't say I notice much difference from the default nice value of 0.

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#17 Post by ghostdawg »

I'll have to try this on my G3 iMac. When scrolling with Iceweasel, it have that choppy feeling, which I hate.
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#18 Post by F37U5G0D »

I switched to opera because of that choppy scrolling feel in iceweasel.

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#19 Post by gnudude »

about:config >> smoothscroll

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#20 Post by Mr B »

Hmmm - interesting..... Works better for me (i.e. smoother) with "smoothscroll" set to false. If set "true", there seems to be a bit of lag which gives a kind of motion sickness feeling.

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#21 Post by dbbolton »

Did anyone figure out a solution to the nice value not showing up in dpkg-reconfigure x11-common or the config file? It showed up in one of me testing systems but in another one it didn't.

According to the man page, the only available option is "allowed_users".
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#22 Post by Jackiebrown »

craigevil wrote:Ok so is it "nice_value = -1" or without the quotes?
I don;t get it either And dpkg-reconfigure -plow x11-common removes it if it is there

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#23 Post by damentz »

I don't think that setting is used anymore the last time I tried. In compensation for that, I have a patch (modification from Con Kolivas) to reduce the nice of X included in the Liquorix kernel.

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#24 Post by register88 »

damentz wrote:I don't think that setting is used anymore the last time I tried. In compensation for that, I have a patch (modification from Con Kolivas) to reduce the nice of X included in the Liquorix kernel.
So, where is the patch?

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#26 Post by El1iP3S01D »

folks i hav da valu at 7 and my screen luks awesome...I love Debian Linux...u rok Debian...
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#27 Post by dbbolton »

I think it says:
El1iP3S01D wrote:Folks, I have the value at "7" and my screen looks awesome. I love Debian GNU/Linux. You rock, Debian.
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#28 Post by AMLJ »

craigevil wrote:# Xwrapper.config (Debian X Window System server wrapper configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by the post-installation script of the x11-common
# package using values from the debconf database.
#
# See the Xwrapper.config(5) manual page for more information.
#
# This file is automatically updated on upgrades of the x11-common package
# *only* if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of that package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command as root:
# dpkg-reconfigure x11-common
allowed_users=console

The line "nice_value = 0" is not there.
I have the same problem, and none of the solutions you guys suggested solves the problem, can anyone help me?
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#29 Post by erron1 »

Bumping an old topic, since i cant seem to find an answer to this. Adjusting the
nice value of Xorg eliminates mouse jitter for me in wine and games, when using
a high polling rate. However i can only do this manually with renice and would
also like to know how to set this automatically. None of the suggestions in this
old thread seem to work anymore.

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