| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/mutter-performance.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | mutter-performance |
| Description: | A window manager for GNOME | Attempts to improve performances with non-upstreamed merge-requests and frequent stable branch resync |
| Upstream URL: | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter |
| Licenses: | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Groups: | gnome |
| Conflicts: | mutter |
| Provides: | libmutter-15.so, mutter |
| Submitter: | Terence |
| Maintainer: | Terence (Saren, saltyming) |
| Last Packager: | saltyming |
| Votes: | 78 |
| Popularity: | 0.077814 |
| First Submitted: | 2019-07-09 09:35 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-01-15 11:01 (UTC) |
Hey, I'm having the same problem as @JordanViknar,
the second monitor freezes for me, as soon as I open the first window of any program. Happens for me with mutter-performance (also with the changed commit) as well as with mutter-dynamic-buffering, but not with the original mutter package.
@JordanViknar Test mutter-dynamic-buffering aur package and tell me the result.
I was already compiling with makepkg due to issues with this particular package on my usual AUR helpers (pamac and yay) (I can confirm I'm using Arch Linux and not Manjaro despite having Pamac).
The latest version didn't fix the issue, it did "reverse" it though (it was now the primary display getting stuck instead of the non-primary one).
I couldn't try your alternative commit, because the build was failing on the checks following the compilation (I tried yesterday and I already forgot the specific element that was failing, but it was somewhere between the 100th and 110th check, I can try again if that'd help you).
Also, I don't know if that's related, but I'm using the gdm-plymouth and libgdm-plymouth packages.
@JordanViknar Please test the latest version and if it doesn't help, change
_commit=561ec4f3e722ea365c535aea4e03b496b20cb8c9 # tags/41.1^25
to
_commit=8de96d3d7c40e6b5289fd707fdd5e6d604f33e8f # tags/41.1^0
in PKGBUILD and try building & installing it via makepkg -sric
I'd like to warn the maintainers (and users) of this package that it has caused me issues when used with a secondary monitor. If you combine both screens, only the primary display will work properly : the other display will just freeze on one of the first few frames, and it will not unfreeze until you change the mode. I was using it alongside gnome-shell-performance, and while uninstalling gnome-shell-performance did not fix the problem, uninstalling this package did solve it. I can only assume then that the problem is caused by one of the patches applied to mutter in this package.
System Info that might be useful :
CPU : Intel Celeron N3450 (4) @ 2.200GHz
GPU : Intel HD Graphics 500
Kernel : 5.15.4-zen1-1-zen
(On a side note, it is quite effective at boosting performance, even more than gnome-shell-performance. If you don't have secondary monitors, feel free to install it.)
This package, together with gnome-shell-performance, drastically improved the GNOME performance for me. No more stuttering animations. Thank you!
Hi, I'm a new co-maintainer of gnome-shell-performance and mutter-performance packages. Please don't hesitate to give us/me advice and bug reports.
Thanks.
@Terence
Whether you are able to continue maintenance of this package or not can I just say a huge thank you for the work you have put into this! It has been the difference between a show-stoppingly juddery desktop and one that was a joy to work with.
Thank you.
I hope we are able to find a maintainer :o)
Hey all,
As you noticed, I'm not able to update this package frequently anymore (lack of time/motivation). If someone wants to help maintain this package I'll gladly add them to the maintainer list.
Pinned Comments
saltyming commented on 2022-03-22 09:37 (UTC) (edited on 2024-10-22 08:27 (UTC) by saltyming)
If you have a problem during any system update with
mutter-performance&gnome-shell-performance, please installmutter&gnome-shellpackages from the main repository and do full upgrade first, then build the performance packages later.If you are using [gnome-unstable] and [extra-testing] repositories, use mutter-performance-unstable
The default patch list includes "Dynamic triple buffering(!1441)", "text-input-v1(!3751)".
Latest Dynamic triple buffering patch has several included MRs from the main development branch to achieve maximum performance.
To enable a specific MR in the Merge Requests List, add an line "_merge_requests_to_use+=('<MR number>')" at the end of PKGBUILD. (Because if you edit the line directly you can be able to end up with merge conflict upon updates.)
You can see some patches' git history here: https://git.saltyming.net/sungmg/mutter-performance-source/
Saren commented on 2018-08-30 14:52 (UTC) (edited on 2020-10-06 05:50 (UTC) by Saren)
If you are getting errors like
fatal: bad revision '73e8cf32'while building this package, refer to PKGBUILD and see which patches caused this. Then, go to the related URLs, replace the commit hashes. If there are conflicts, comment out the patches.Please notify me in comment section if this happens.
The optional performance patches are by default enabled.
A package for gnome-shell performance patches: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-performance/