[arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

[Jan Steffens]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Pico Geyer <picogeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi damjan,
>
> Here we go:
> direct rendering: Yes
> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)
>     GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend,
>
> Pico

You're using software rendering. No wonder it's slow.

What's your video card? Are the drivers installed?
How do you start gnome? startx? GDM?