Bug 470999

Summary: Since last OpenSUSE TW KDE:Unstable update, startplasma-wayland is unusably slow; startx is not
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell <4wy78uwh>
Component: wayland-genericAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: major CC: nate, xaver.hugl
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.27.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/since-last-kde-unstable-update-startplasma-wayland-unusably-slow-startx-is-not/166900/8
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Description Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2023-06-14 01:05:44 UTC 
STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Execute startplasma-wayland from a TTY (without another instance of Plasma running, per https://discuss.kde.org/t/cant-run-kde-in-two-ttys-simultaneously/2105?u=rokejulianlockhart)

OBSERVED RESULT

Everything is ridiculously slow, and window shadows don't show.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230610
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.108.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 6.3.6-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: llvmpipe

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

https://forums.opensuse.org/t/since-last-kde-unstable-update-startplasma-wayland-unusably-slow-startx-is-not/166900

PS /home/rokejulianlockhart> zypper info kwin5 
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package kwin5:
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Repository     : KDE:Unstable:Frameworks
Name           : kwin5
Version        : 5.27.5git.20230612T035903~e14299de-ku.104.2
Arch           : x86_64
Vendor         : obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:Unstable
Installed Size : 17.2 MiB
Installed      : Yes
Status         : out-of-date (version 5.27.5git.20230612T035903~e14299de-ku.104.1 installed)
Source package : kwin5-5.27.5git.20230612T035903~e14299de-ku.104.2.src
Upstream URL   : http://www.kde.org
Summary        : KDE Window Manager
Description    : 
    KWin is the window manager of the K desktop environment.

PS /home/rokejulianlockhart>
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-06-20 18:54:19 UTC 
> Graphics Processor: llvmpipe
If you're seeing this on bare metal, it means your system is misconfigured and calling back to software rendering. Are you running the system in a VM, or on bare metal?
Comment 2 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2023-06-23 00:11:34 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> > Graphics Processor: llvmpipe
> If you're seeing this on bare metal, it means your system is misconfigured
> and calling back to software rendering. Are you running the system in a VM,
> or on bare metal?

Bare metal.
Comment 3 Zamundaaa 2023-08-09 09:40:52 UTC 
If your system is using llvmpipe then it being slow is not too surprising. It using llvmpipe in the first place is a configuration issue with your distro though, there's nothing we can do about that