Resources barely used, slowdowns, some freezing - Video playback using Firefox - Worked fine on W11

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Hi! New user here, switched from Win11 to Manjaro Gnome about two days ago. Fresh install.

Everything works mostly right, did my updates. I’m using propietary NVIDIA drivers, and two monitors. I setup a VM for Win7 to play some old games, that works mostly right, the mouse pointer is a bit laggy but I don’t mind.

Anyway, my issue is that I can’t do anything else with the proper response time whenever I’m running a game on one monitor and a youtube video on the other. If I switch windows, for example from the game to Firefox, and I try to scroll down it’s slow and barely responsive. Still the video playback works, but it starts looking choppy.

I don’t know what to expect from Manjaro tbh, I just have the Win11 frame and this whole setup used to work flawlessly over there, but I’m here to stay and want to setup base Arch when I’m comfortable in the future. I’m running Proton with Steam, switching to GE or 8.0 doesn’t make any difference, games run great.

Here’s my system’s info:

inxi -v8azy                                                   22 ✘ 
System:
  Kernel: 6.6.19-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
    root=UUID=a3416e91-311f-4af8-b939-22bc0f6e8e62 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: GNOME v: 45.4 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: gnome-shell
    tools: gsd-screensaver-proxy dm: GDM v: 45.0.1 Distro: Manjaro
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI (MS-7C91)
    v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American
    Megatrends LLC. v: 1.70 date: 06/29/2021
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 24 GiB available: 23.39 GiB used: 6.27 GiB (26.8%)
  Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
  Array-1: capacity: 128 GiB slots: 4 modules: 3 EC: None
    max-module-size: 32 GiB note: est.
  Device-1: Channel-A DIMM 0 type: no module installed
  Device-2: Channel-A DIMM 1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
    (unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 3600 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1
    min: 1 max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Kingston
    part-no: KF3600C17D4/8GX serial: <filter>
  Device-3: Channel-B DIMM 0 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
    (unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 3600 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1
    min: 1 max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Kingston
    part-no: KF3600C17D4/8GX serial: <filter>
  Device-4: Channel-B DIMM 1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
    (unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 3600 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1
    min: 1 max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Kingston
    part-no: KF3600C17D4/8GX serial: <filter>
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ gen: 4
    level: v3 note: check built: 2022 process: TSMC n6 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25)
    model-id: 0x21 (33) stepping: 0 microcode: 0xA201016
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 32 MiB
    desc: 1x32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3981 high: 4775 min/max: 2200/4850 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 4771 2: 3858
    3: 3819 4: 3818 5: 3821 6: 3819 7: 3820 8: 3819 9: 4775 10: 3855 11: 3819
    12: 3817 13: 3958 14: 3819 15: 3798 16: 4320 bogomips: 121637
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
    bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
    constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total
    cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de debug_swap decodeassists erms extapic
    extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr fxsr_opt ht
    hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs invpcid irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce
    misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt
    nrip_save nx ospke osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
    pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pku pni popcnt
    pse pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni
    skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor
    svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip user_shstk v_spec_ctrl
    v_vmsave_vmload vaes vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall vpclmulqdq wbnoinvd wdt
    xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Vulnerable: Safe RET, no microcode
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate] driver: nvidia
    v: 550.54.14 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 545.xx+ status: current
    (as of 2024-02; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 2b:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2489 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :1
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3280x1080 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Monitor-1: DP-0 pos: primary,top-right res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 93
    size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: HDMI-0 pos: bottom-l res: 1360x768 hz: 60 dpi: 85
    size: 406x229mm (15.98x9.02") diag: 466mm (18.35") modes: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
    drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia
    inactive: wayland,device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.54.14
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
    memory: 7.81 GiB
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 2b:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 2d:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.19-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.3 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 29:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 2a:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp42s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-9:6 chip-ID: 8087:0029
    class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 139.28 GiB (15.0%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WDS100T1X0E-00AFY0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 613000WD temp: 44.9 C scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%)
    used: 139.28 GiB (15.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
    label: N/A uuid: a3416e91-311f-4af8-b939-22bc0f6e8e62
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
    uuid: 4608-8909
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 10 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-2:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-5:3 info: SINOWEALTH Wired Gaming Mouse type: mouse,keyboard
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 480mA chip-ID: 258a:1007 class-ID: 0301
  Device-2: 1-8:4 info: Micro Star MYSTIC LIGHT type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 1462:7c91 class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 1-9:6 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: bluetooth driver: btusb
    interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 65.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 57 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Repos:
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1386 libs: 472 tools: gnome-software,pamac
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1: https://mirror.seahost.de/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    2: https://mirror.archlinux.tw/Manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    3: https://repos.silknet.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 421
  1: cpu: 135%
    command: Z:\home\naru\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\Yog-Sothoth's
    pid: 27299 mem: 986.2 MiB (4.1%)
  2: cpu: 27.6% command: firefox pid: 2407 mem: 890.4 MiB (3.7%)
  3: cpu: 8.4% command: gnome-shell pid: 1373 mem: 427.9 MiB (1.7%)
  4: cpu: 4.8% command: firefox pid: 2710 mem: 505.2 MiB (2.1%)
  5: cpu: 4.6% command: firefox pid: 2842 mem: 113.3 MiB (0.4%)
  Memory top: 5 of 421
  1: mem: 986.2 MiB (4.1%)
    command: Z:\home\naru\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\Yog-Sothoth's
    pid: 27299 cpu: 135%
  2: mem: 890.4 MiB (3.7%) command: firefox pid: 2407 cpu: 27.6%
  3: mem: 544.5 MiB (2.2%) command: steamwebhelper pid: 6408 cpu: 3.5%
  4: mem: 505.2 MiB (2.1%) command: firefox pid: 2710 cpu: 4.8%
  5: mem: 427.9 MiB (1.7%) command: gnome-shell pid: 1373 cpu: 8.4%
Info:
  Processes: 421 Power: uptime: 40m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 9.35 GiB services: gsd-power,
    power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical
    tool: systemctl
  Compilers: clang: 16.0.6 gcc: 13.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
    running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.33

Here’s a Conky and System Monitor screenshot while running both the video playback at 1080@60 and the game Yog-Sothoth’s Yard, which is a light 2d game. I don’t see anything alarming, yes my CPU temp is a bit warm but it’s not even reaching 70°. I also noticed that when I click the + to add a new Firefox tab, the tab appears, stutters for a bit trying to grow in size and then I can use it.

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Wanted to add, that I tried adding a SWAP file and switching Kernels to 7.x and 5.x and nothing changed. The game runs fine capped @60, I notice screen tearing but the main monitor runs @144 so that’s expected, I think?

Screen capture to try and show choppines

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https://www.reddit.com/r/NobaraProject/comments/1b43m3b/nvidia_driver_550_gaming_performance/
You are not the only one. Explicit sync is not implemented in newer official drivers. I don’t use Nvidia any longer so I am not exactly sure when that popped up. I’ve heard around 535. So try some earlier than that driver. Frogging Family over on Github should have you covered. GitHub - Frogging-Family/nvidia-all: Nvidia driver latest to 396 series AIO installer
Interesting setup with 3 DIMMs.

For the VM, I always go for VNC. Spice lags too much for me, even when testing distros and I am on the desktop. To do this you would need to delete a couple default devices, otherwise it complains and wont start, at least on my computer. You might have to redo the win7 install, I don’t know.
Display Spice, switch to VNC server. Channel (spice), click Remove. And the 2 USB Redirectors, Remove them too. That should be it. Tablet might be enticing to remove. If you do that, mouse wont work at all.

EDIT: If you are using newer OSes, I recommend you enable UEFI-mode. virtmanager2 — Postimages
Otherwise they will be installed in MBR-mode. One problem that can arise is if you’re trying to install a linux distro with the normal EFI partition, it will fail every time.
Have to do that before installation. There’s a checkbox that says something like Modify/Customize setup, tick that. While I am at it, I also remove the Spice stuff.

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You have no swap space configured. This could be the root of your woes.

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Oh, haven’t tried downgrading drivers yet, I’ll try!

Still, games work fine, and I believe I saw Helldivers 1 running at 144hz the other day. Should test again. It’s just the multitasking. And I never run out of memory or anything. CPU “LOAD” on conky goes to 4 sometimes but I don’t even know how to read that number.

And I used to have two sticks, but was training simple ML models and running out of memory lol. So I just slapped another stick on, and noticed I cannot physically access the first slot :melting_face: the Stealth cooler would press against it.

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Would this be fixed with a SWAP file? I have an SSD, only one partition. I never run out of ram though, multitasking like this it uses <8gb

EDIT: Trying again with a 5GB swapfile. Will report back.

EDIT 2: Still the same. As I’m using GNOME, if I press the Meta key with the game and browser running, it freezes for a second and then resumes opening.

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A loaded question, really; not fixed directly, but not having swap space certainly adds to the likelihood of multiple failures going forward.

The one-partition-install, although it’s one of the default options, is seldom a practical choice; it’s fine when installing to a virtual machine, for example, but not ideal for real world use. Still, what’s done is done.

Having only one partition is not a barrier to creating swap space; you could simply resize your existing partition to accommodate a swap partition. Gparted can help in resizing partitions; preferably using it from a Live Installer DVD/USB.

At least as much as your RAM is the generally recommended amount of space to make available; and that is sound advice, though in practice, a lesser amount of allocated space can also be workable.

If you’re not confident with any of that, you might also consider using a swap file and possiblly zswap or zram rather than physical swap partition. This could be an advantage, as it means not needing to concern yourself with repartitioning your SSD.

See the ArchWiki articles for related information:

I hope this helps. Cheers.

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Isn’t Zram only for swap in RAM? That’s how I used it.
Found this in regards to a swapfile on disk instead of a swap-partition: https://linuxize.com/post/create-a-linux-swap-file/

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Right, haha. By fixed I meant that if your solution/process would be the same as making a SWAP file, and I’m lead to believe that with newer kernels that’s the case. I added a video to show the choppy display in the OP, if it’s needed.

I used this wiki to create a SWAP file and following the advice as I don’t use hibernation, I made it 5GB. And yeah, it’s silly to make only one partition.

Still, when multitasking I keep checking my system resources and never once was the newly formed swap used. I’ll try downgrading drivers now.

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Just to clarify. I’m gaming on Manjaro, and using VMs on the side for older games. The current issue is with Manjaro, running Steam with Proton, I haven’t had any big problems with the VMs yet but I’ll follow your advice on those whenever I fix the freezing/stuttering.

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That is what I was referring to, happens every time I use Spice.

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Does this mean you are in a wayland session?
Have you tried using xorg/X11 ?
(you should be able to select from the login screen)


Newish things with oldish BIOS. If my search is correct you have updates available

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-B550-GAMING-EDGE-WIFI/support


You might also check pretty much everything here

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gaming#Improving_performance


Out of left field I might also mention the max_map thing.
But that would be more of a problem on certain games only

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gaming#Increase_vm.max_map_count

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Just finished downgrading drivers, tried: 545, 535, 470. With the first two the issue continued, with the last I coulnd’t even run the game. All of this while also having the SWAP file of 5gb, which I’ve never seen used in System Monitor.

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I don’t have X11/Xorg in the login screen. Only Gnome or Gnome Classic. Will try updating BIOS now.

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Hm.
There should be a “Gnome on Xorg” session to choose.
Maybe you are missing the xorg-xserver package?

We want wayland to work well, of course.
But nvidia has only recently begun to mostly play nice with it, and you need the latest drivers for that to work. Still there are some bugs… notably nvidia+xwayland (launching xorg windows in wayland session) is known to cause graphical glitches such as constant flashing.

And since wine is going to be an xorg (xwayland) window by default … you will likely be nipped by this in some form by any windoze software.

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No idea tbh. Just found another clue, if the youtube video I’m playing on Firefox on the second monitor is not the main tab of that browser window, everything works mostly smoothly, there are a few hiccups still, but it’s way smoother than with the video running in the monitor. If it’s just the audio playing with a static page in front it works mostly fine.

Maybe it has to do with the difference in refresh rates/resolution/gpu drivers? Which is weird because I downgraded them but felt no changes.

Just upgraded, BIOS reset to Secure Boot on, couldn’t log in so I disabled it. Issue for another time I guess. Was able to login without issue and it’s still the same.

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Should I have an X screen for each monitor? Right now there’s only “X Screen 0” with I believe is merging both monitors.

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Current inxi, I made a Timeshift restore point to play around. Really useful stuff.

inxi -v8azy

System:
  Kernel: 6.6.19-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
    root=UUID=a3416e91-311f-4af8-b939-22bc0f6e8e62 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: GNOME v: 45.4 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: gnome-shell
    tools: gsd-screensaver-proxy dm: GDM v: 45.0.1 Distro: Manjaro
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI (MS-7C91)
    v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American
    Megatrends LLC. v: 1.G0 date: 03/08/2024
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 24 GiB available: 23.39 GiB used: 4.63 GiB (19.8%)
  Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
  Array-1: capacity: 128 GiB slots: 4 modules: 3 EC: None
    max-module-size: 32 GiB note: est.
  Device-1: Channel-A DIMM 0 type: no module installed
  Device-2: Channel-A DIMM 1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
    (unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 3600 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1
    min: 1 max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Kingston
    part-no: KF3600C17D4/8GX serial: <filter>
  Device-3: Channel-B DIMM 0 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
    (unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 3600 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1
    min: 1 max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Kingston
    part-no: KF3600C17D4/8GX serial: <filter>
  Device-4: Channel-B DIMM 1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
    (unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 3600 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1
    min: 1 max: 1 width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Kingston
    part-no: KF3600C17D4/8GX serial: <filter>
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ gen: 4
    level: v3 note: check built: 2022 process: TSMC n6 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25)
    model-id: 0x21 (33) stepping: 0 microcode: 0xA20102B
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 32 MiB
    desc: 1x32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2640 high: 3800 min/max: 2200/4850 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2877 2: 2200
    3: 2565 4: 2311 5: 2958 6: 2882 7: 2200 8: 2719 9: 3800 10: 2200 11: 2749
    12: 3600 13: 2200 14: 2580 15: 2200 16: 2200 bogomips: 121639
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
    bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
    constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total
    cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de debug_swap decodeassists erms extapic
    extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr fxsr_opt ht
    hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs invpcid irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce
    misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt
    nrip_save nx ospke osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
    pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pku pni popcnt
    pse pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni
    skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor
    svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip user_shstk v_spec_ctrl
    v_vmsave_vmload vaes vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall vpclmulqdq wbnoinvd wdt
    x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate] driver: nvidia
    v: 550.54.14 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 545.xx+ status: current
    (as of 2024-02; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 2b:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2489 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :1
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3280x1080 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Monitor-1: DP-0 pos: primary,top-right res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 93
    size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: HDMI-0 pos: bottom-l res: 1360x768 hz: 60 dpi: 85
    size: 406x229mm (15.98x9.02") diag: 466mm (18.35") modes: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
    drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia
    inactive: wayland,device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.54.14
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
    memory: 7.81 GiB
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 2b:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 2d:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.19-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.3 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 29:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 2a:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp42s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-9:7 chip-ID: 8087:0029
    class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 935.25 GiB used: 253.1 GiB (27.1%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WDS100T1X0E-00AFY0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 613000WD temp: 43.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler G3
    size: 3.73 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 2.0
    spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: PMAP
    scheme: MBR
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%)
    used: 253.07 GiB (27.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
    label: N/A uuid: a3416e91-311f-4af8-b939-22bc0f6e8e62
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
    uuid: 4608-8909
  ID-3: /run/media/naru/USB STICK raw-size: 3.73 GiB size: 3.72 GiB (99.80%)
    used: 32 MiB (0.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: USB STICK
    uuid: 7F51-3BCE
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
    compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 5 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 10 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-2:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-3:3 info: Toshiba Kingston DataTraveler 102/2.0 / HEMA Flash
    Drive 2 GB PNY Attache 4GB Stick type: mass storage driver: usb-storage
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
    power: 200mA chip-ID: 0930:6545 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-5:4 info: SINOWEALTH Wired Gaming Mouse type: mouse,keyboard
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 480mA chip-ID: 258a:1007 class-ID: 0301
  Device-3: 1-8:5 info: Micro Star MYSTIC LIGHT type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 1462:7c91 class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Device-4: 1-9:7 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: bluetooth driver: btusb
    interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 59 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Repos:
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1399 libs: 472 tools: gnome-software,pamac
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1: https://mirror.seahost.de/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    2: https://mirror.archlinux.tw/Manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    3: https://repos.silknet.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 385
  1: cpu: 13.8% command: firefox pid: 2305 mem: 522.5 MiB (2.1%)
  2: cpu: 7.6% command: gnome-shell pid: 1378 mem: 404.5 MiB (1.6%)
  3: cpu: 6.2% command: firefox pid: 2551 mem: 271.5 MiB (1.1%)
  4: cpu: 4.4% command: steamwebhelper pid: 3369 mem: 511.6 MiB (2.1%)
  5: cpu: 3.9% command: firefox pid: 3096 mem: 462.5 MiB (1.9%)
  Memory top: 5 of 385
  1: mem: 522.5 MiB (2.1%) command: firefox pid: 2305 cpu: 13.8%
  2: mem: 511.6 MiB (2.1%) command: steamwebhelper pid: 3369 cpu: 4.4%
  3: mem: 462.5 MiB (1.9%) command: firefox pid: 3096 cpu: 3.9%
  4: mem: 404.5 MiB (1.6%) command: gnome-shell pid: 1378 cpu: 7.6%
  5: mem: 346.8 MiB (1.4%) command: firefox pid: 3847 cpu: 1.1%
Info:
  Processes: 385 Power: uptime: 14m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 9.35 GiB services: gsd-power,
    power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical
    tool: systemctl
  Compilers: clang: 16.0.6 gcc: 13.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
    running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.33

Also, this was used on another post to check if the user was on X11 or not, seems I’m on X11:

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Is the Firefox you’re using a flatpak or other containerised version? If so, try removing that and install from the official repository; or, directly from Mozilla.

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Will try, it’s the one that came preinstalled with the Manjaro Gnome iso.

EDIT: Before this, I played a video on mpv on the second screen while running the game on the primary monitor. That works fine, I also downloaded the brave-browser package using pacman, did the same and it works flawlessly. It seems to be an issue with just Firefox playing videos? :pray:

Sorry for wasting your time guys, and thank you very much for your help. I appreciate it a lot.

It never occurred to me that it could be Firefox. I don’t know where I read that it was the only browser that came with proper hardware acceleration so I just brushed it off.

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This is the package I’m using, pacman installed.

Anyway, I don’t know whether to close the issue or not now. Switching browsers isn’t a problem for me but any idea on what could be causing this with Firefox?

Should I close it, soundofthunder really came in clutch.

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Well, I’m not absolutely convinced that Firefox is to blame; but it could be, to an extent; you may just need to reset it (start afresh with a new Firefox profile). You could also try another browser for a few days and see how it performs in comparison.

I suggest Vivaldi (based on Chromium) which I use personally, along with Firefox. Vivaldi is available from the official repositories:

sudo pacman -S vivaldi

Whichever browser you use, make sure to install uBlock Origin, to keep the nasties at bay.

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I’ll close it as my solution came with looking at Firefox, and I’ll try Vivaldi too(which looks really cool!).

On resetting Firefox, this was a fresh install so it should be a new user from the get go.

I’ll look around for issues people had with Firefox. And make another post if need be.

Thanks a lot guys!