I was using Xfce for the past month and Thunar experience wasnt pleasant. It was freezing randomly and it was annoying. I tried Gnome Files and Nemo and they were laggy. I thought it was about lacking Gnome dependencies. So today I switched to Gnome and Gnome Files is still laggy, as well as Nemo. What is the issue?
(Also a weird thing about steam : Steam took 2 minutes to open when i was in xfce and now it only takes 5 seconds)
Sorry, but what do you mean by laggy? Like in a folder with a lot of files or dragging the window? Switching directories?
General usage is laggy, resizing windows, closing windows, clicking icons, right clicking. Hell, everything.
Is it just file managers then? You said you didn’t have a good experience with thunar and dolphin and nemo are both laggy. What kind of graphics card are you running as well as your other system specs?
This is my neofetch.
The integrated GPU is really good, I’m having 50-70 FPS in Forza Horizon 4 @ 1280*720 Low.
Gpu is the same gpu as steam deck I think.
Also dolphin isn’t laggy. Its the best working file browser overall.
and… all under running Gnome? is this wayland or X11 session?
I do also see 59 flatpaks… (never saw dpkp in there too…) running bthe filemamagers as flatpak install or native arch packagages?
Its Wayland and no all of the file managers are native Arch packages. And no that one dpkg isnt a file manager.
You could try replacing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome with xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is currently the cause of lag issues in many reports… mainly not Gnome but still worth a try…
Found the issue. Nautilus(Gnome Files) doesn’t like it when you manually put files into the “Templates” directory. So if you have something in there try to move it somewhere else. That fixed my issue.
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