[arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems

[Brandon Watkins]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Pico Geyer <picogeyer at gmail.com> wrote:>
> > I thought nouveau-dri was mainly for opengl type acceleration.
> > Is there something I can go read to clear this up?
>
> GNOME Shell uses OpenGL.
>
Yep, what was probably happening is since he didn't have the 3d nouveau
driver installed, gnome-shell fell back to LLVMpipe rendering which is cpu
intensive.