I can confirm the observations made by Dawid Lorenz I tried replicating the actions in the video he posted in his own bug report, and found the results to be the same.
- Opening the image viewer made desktop switching noticably slower. - Launching Google Chrome brings about very noticable performance changes overall - Upgrading my Gedit from 3.10 to 3.12 eliminated the issue with slow performance in the text editor Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LhKhdgKHiQ Repository: https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3 Definitely seems that at least part of issue bight be in drawing/updating of gnome 3.10 applications However, I've noticed: - Opening a gnome terminal window (NB: Version 3.12) also brings about the sluggish performance in desktop switching So I'm not sure the issue can be solely attributed to the the 3.10 vs. 3.12 changes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1386721 Title: Graphics Slow After Upgrade 14.04 - 14.10 Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Using Gnome Ubuntu 14.10, Dell XPS 13, intel 915 Graphics After upgrading from 14.04 to 14.10 there are a lot of places where the graphics are working much slower than they were before: - Gnome Shell Interface is very sluggish, visible "chops" (redrawing) when pressing the [Super] key. - Selecting text in Gedit takes a full second pr. line Experiences some subjective improvement when I booted kernel 3.13.0-37 instead of 3.16.0-23, but that may be my imagination as the problem persists. I've searched google, forums, found a couple of relevant links that point to the issue being the Intel drivers. http://askubuntu.com/questions/53962...E2%86%92-14-10 http://www.webupd8.org/2014/10/ubunt...ent-1652086424 But the drivers currently in 14.10 should be newer than those supplied by Intel to 14.04 so that doesn't make sense to me. As one Intel developer wrote: "I would like to point out that since what we do is bring more ecent versions of the software to the target distributions than they ship with, a 14.04 targeted installer is unlikely to bring much to a 14.10 installation, which most likely has the same or more recent versions already anyway." Source: https://01.org/linuxgraphics/node/375 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Tue Oct 28 15:24:30 2014 DistUpgraded: 2014-10-25 20:59:36,052 DEBUG enabling apt cron job DistroCodename: utopic DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: i915-3.15-3.13, 0.01, 3.13.0-37-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:060a] InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-14 (135 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2) MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS13 9333 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-23-generic root=UUID=105bbbd1-365e-4063-bdca-fc5431faf5dc ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (2 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/11/2013 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A02 dmi.board.name: 0GFTRT dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: 0.1 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd12/11/2013:svnDellInc.:pnXPS139333:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0GFTRT:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1: dmi.product.name: XPS13 9333 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. version.compiz: compiz N/A version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.56-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.3.0-0ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.3.0-0ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.0-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.4.0-2ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu4 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu2 xserver.bootTime: Tue Oct 28 13:44:57 2014 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: product id 4933 vendor CMN xserver.version: 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1386721/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
