Laggy UI Experience Newcomer

Hello everyone, I just downloaded the manjaro and skimmed over the forum I saw that some people had faced wtih the same problem but I couldnt find any solution yet. Using manjaro, my ui becomes laggy, especially when I click show apps button or close a window etc. I checked the GPU utilization from the nvidia-settings and it says 0. My specs are 16 gb ram mx250 i710510 (or 520) u

Hi @karakobra1, and welcome!

You’re new and say you’ve looked on the Forum. Well, then I guess :innocent: you missed this:

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This implies a nvidia gpu - but we need to know a little more - please provide the url returned from

inxi -Fxy | curl -F'file=@-' https://0x0.st

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https://0x0.st/HIrJ.txt

this is the result

You have a hybrid system. 2 GPUs.
I am guessing you have PRIME.

(but you could show us with mhwd -li -l)

In that case if its working correctly it should use the iGPU by default. And PRIME will call the dGPU.

glxinfo | grep 'renderer string'
prime-run glxinfo | grep 'renderer string'

first one

> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!
> 0000:02:00.0 (0302:10de:1d52) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
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                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
          video-nvidia            2023.03.23               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-470xx            2023.03.23               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI


> 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:9b41) Display controller Intel Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI

second one

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce MX250/PCIe/SSE2

That looks to be working.
Just know your dGPU (nvidia) is not supposed to be running until you call it with prime-run.

I dont know about the general ‘laggy ui’.
Its gnome … so I am not super familiar, but I would suggest checking its 'extension’s.

thanks man, what do you mean by extensions. Ive used gnome with ubuntu on the same computer before and there was no such issue

Gnome has ‘extensions’ that are add-ons to the desktop.
Like here: https://extensions.gnome.org/
They can cause problems … because gnome changes the underlying code all the time, so if your extension hasnt been made for the version of gnome you are running (and even then sometimes…) there can be issues.
Like firefox extensions - theres a handful that are unlikely to cause problems so long as they are up to date … otherwise its a common source of issues.