Sluggish GUI after last Tumbleweed update

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Has anyone else experienced GUI sluggishness after the latest Tumbleweed update?

I am running kde plamsa with wayland. When I updated it included both kde framworks 6.8 and kernel 6.11.6

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Graphics card details?

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If you create a new user and login as that user, do you experience the same ‘sluggishness’? Do you mean cursor/keyboard responsiveness, or something else?

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Kmenu is slow to open and sluggish when navigating the menu. Windows open and close slower (or more jarring) than before. Everything was fine before my last update.

I haven’t tried a new user, but X11 doesn’t seem to have the issue, just Wayland.

Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Tahiti LE [Radeon HD 7870 XT]
vendor: Apple FirePro D500 driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu
arch: GCN-1 code: Southern Islands process: TSMC 28nm built: 2011-20 pcie:
gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-10, DP-11,
DP-12, DP-7, DP-8, DP-9 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:679e class-ID: 0300
temp: 60.0 C
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Tahiti LE [Radeon HD 7870 XT]
vendor: Apple FirePro D500 driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu
arch: GCN-1 code: Southern Islands process: TSMC 28nm built: 2011-20 pcie:
gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-4 empty: DP-1, DP-2,
DP-3, DP-5, DP-6 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:679e class-ID: 0300
temp: 60.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: vesa
alternate: fbdev dri: radeonsi gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: DP-4 model: ASUS VG247Q1A serial: R9LMTF172853 built: 2023
res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2 size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65")
diag: 604mm (23.8") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: radeonsi device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast
surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.2.6 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: TAHITI (radeonsi LLVM 19.1.3 DRM 2.50
6.11.6-2-default) device-ID: 1002:679e memory: 2.93 GiB unified: no
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.

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I note that you are using the radeon driver. I wonder if using the amdgpu driver instead would improve your desktop experience?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Load_amdgpu_driver

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Don’t let all those Archlinux instructions flummox you. The only things you need to engage the amdgpu drivers instead of radeon are:

  1. radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 (on your Grub linu lines)
  2. xf86-video-amdgpu, kernel-firmware-amdgpu, libdrm_amdgpu1 (packages installed)

Most likely you already have those 3 packages in #2 installed. For testing a boot, those command line options can be typed in at the Grub menu after striking the E key. If this fixes it, then they need to be added in file /etc/default/grub on the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= line to make a permanant part of /boot/grub2/grub.cfg responsible for your Grub menu.

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Awesome, thank you. I will give this a try this weekend.

And yes, the Archlinux instructions did make me want to ditch Wayland and use X11.

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After upgrading to kernel 6.11.7 (and 6.11.8) I have not had this issue with a Wayland session. I will keep this in mind if I have continued problems in the future. Thank you for the responses!