Animations lag

davidbond

Sun Jul 23, 2017 4:20:30 am

every once in a while, I open or minimize a application it lags, even if i have only 3 apps running.
My specs
Dell latitude e5430
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.10.0-27-generic
Resolution: 1366x768
CPU: Intel Core i5-3210M CPU @ 3.1GHz
GPU: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile
RAM: 2166MiB / 7864MiB

Swarfendor437

Sun Jul 23, 2017 5:14:40 pm

Which version of Zorin?

davidbond

Sun Jul 23, 2017 11:33:52 pm

Zorin 12.1
Xenial

Swarfendor437

Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:34:48 pm

Hi, see if any of the solutions proffered here help:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/450555/ ... 2-04-14-04

davidbond

Mon Jul 24, 2017 11:19:57 pm

It said "distribution not supported".
:c

MBMz10

Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:09:33 am

I have found that a fresh install of Zorin 12.1 seems to hang and freeze a little from time to time until a few days later and/or updated. Have you tried running the Software Updater manually and not the one on the Software Centre but "Software Updater" from the Menu.
I did a fresh install of 12.1 on a virtual machine recently and it had about 1.5 GB of available updates, don't recall if it was Core or Ultimate though.

davidbond

Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:55:02 am

i did it, the lag is still there

Swarfendor437

Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:14:20 pm

davidbond wrote:It said "distribution not supported".
:c

Hi, madvinegar posted a long time ago how you can change your OS Identity to Ubuntu but I can't find it on here or elswehere on the net - if you can do that then the packages needing Ubuntu would get installed.

davidbond

Wed Jul 26, 2017 5:31:17 am

i tried this

CODE:
$ sudo cp /etc/lsb-release /etc/lsb-release.bak
$ kdesudo kate /etc/lsb-release
Replace with:
Quote:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Zorin 12.1"
and save file, then:
CODE:
$ sudo intel-linux-graphics-installer

still said unsupported distro

the post from here http://forums.netrunner.com/showthread.php?tid=16521

davidbond

Thu Jul 27, 2017 6:35:34 am

I used software updater
installed new updates, the lag has reduced

But is still there

davidbond

Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:45:04 am

I use this file at /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf:

Copy/Paste this

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "TearFree" "True"
EndSection

This could also be added to a pre-existing xorg.conf

https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... 175532672/

davidbond

Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:06:41 pm

overall this helped, but i still get little occasional lag

davidbond

Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:01:00 am

I'm using a different OS, but I made a bootable usb to try it again.
I used htop and found that gnome shell has CPU spike between 30% - 60% when there's lag.

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