Hey guys, I am not sure if this has already been reported or not and I should have reported this a lot sooner but ever since the GTK 4 update for pamac come out it takes a really long time to open it on the Raspberry pi 4, I know the IO speed on the pi 4 isn’t the best even with a fast SD card but I really hope this could be optimised for the pi as it’s a kinda annoying experience especially when you want to install packages, change pamac setting etc. Also since XFCE4 using GTK 3 and not 4 the theme defaults to light, I wish Pamac had a option in the drop down menu to change the theme like other GTK 4 apps.
I have never used pacmac but it takes 3-4 seconds here to open xfce installed on a ssid. I have pamac-gtk3 10.6.0-0.1 installed. Going through the menu’s seems pretty fast to me. I have my pi400 overclocked to 2200.
I do not know what you think is light but my theme seems to be dark to me.
Ahh right I see so the normal pamac package is what I assume is the one for Gnome and GTK 4 which is a lot heavier on the pi 4 so there is a pamac-gtk3 package and that indeed works better, thanks for letting me know
It looks like back when the xfce image was created pamac-gtk (gtk3 )was installed. Since then it went to using gtk4. I have no clue how I wound up with pamac-gtk3 installed since I do not use pamac. I changed xfce to install pamac-gtk3 in editions in manjaro-arm-tools today.
Thinking back about a year ago I had to uninstall pamac on Mate when it was not loading up correctly and causing an issue with shutdown. That may have been the same problem with it using gtk4.
