Hi all,
First I’d like to say that I’m loving EndeavourOS, and your community seems wonderful!
I’m having an issue with Gnome 48 where X11/Electron applications have extremely poor performance.
Before I get into it, I’ve recorded a video of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/YgD5myt
My relevant system specs:
Ryzen 9950X3D
MSI X870E Carbon
Radeon RX 9070 XT
Dell 5120x2160 display
I’m running the latest Mesa 25.0.2 and RADV drivers, Mutter 48.0-4, and Gnome 48. I have also tried downgrading to Mutter 48rc, it did not correct the problem. Fedora 41 with Gnome 47 is installed on another partition and does not experience this issue.
I’ve narrowed this problem down to ‘xwayland-native-scaling’ being enabled. For some reason, whenever it’s enabled the performance of any X11 app is horrendous. Aside from the loading and resizing issues, video playback in Spotify is very laggy, and UI elements feel sluggish in X11 apps.
Just to clarify, this problem no longer occurs when ‘xwayland-native-scaling’ is not enabled, but then X11 apps are blurry, so that’s not really a solution.
One thing I’ve had very limited success with was to install the Flatpak of some apps and setting the ozone to Wayland, but that only works for some things, and isn’t really an ideal solution.
I’ve scoured the internet for the past few days looking for someone else experiencing this problem, but couldn’t find anyone else. After making a post in r/gnome and in the Gnome forums, I figured why not try here as well.
Thanks for reading. 