Originally posted by polarathene
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There's Experimental Work On A Vulkan Renderer For KDE's KWin
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Its true. I have recently got a loan laptop with a nvidia chip in it. First I was running nouveau, and all was buttery smooth, but suspend/resume was broken. so I changed out to the binary driver, now suspend/resume works. but I had to disable some of the layers acceleration in Firefox to get rendering right. I also notice occasional glitches in rendering the cursor and sometime icons go weird as well. And compositing is super-jerky and not smooth at all.
Had to drop compositing from opengl to XRender to minimise graphical artefacts.
I'm super unimpressed after having having a radeonsi desktop.
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Originally posted by R41N3R View PostThis is awesome news! From my point of view this would allow Kwin a greater control about graphics, way too often something broke as of the drivers.
The other point is lowering energy consumptions in mobile devices and laptops.## VGA ##
AMD: X1950XTX, HD3870, HD5870
Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)
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Originally posted by lunarcloud View PostThere very well may be platforms in future where the Vulkan support is better than the OpenGL support or even where there is *only* Vulkan support. Those two situations make doing this worthwhile alone.
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Originally posted by torturedutopian View PostDunno, might be useful. Indeed, Intel GMA GPUs handle kwin animations / compositing beautifully, but it's not perfectly smooth and happens to be jerky with some other chips like NVIDIA ones (under GNOME too). Here Vulkan might make a difference ?
Wonder if this Vulkan renderer runs under an X context ?Last edited by Vistaus; 21 February 2018, 01:08 PM.
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Originally posted by shmerl View Post
You can use VK_ICD_FILENAMES to override Vulkan driver priority.
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Originally posted by M@GOid View PostThe people behind the Nintendo Switch hack to launch Linux, now are able to run KDE with touchscreen controls:
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
Which is really cool! But no market for it as KDE isn't touch screen-oriented enough like GNOME Shell or Unity 8. At least, that's what people keep saying
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Originally posted by FireBurn View Post
It's supposed to be selectable via the app, but very few apps do this yet. I new about the ICD override. I guess I could set it in /etc/environment but it would be great if it could be thought about at the start when support was being written
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Originally posted by PackRat View Post
I have inherited two blackberrey playbooks and BB 10 phone that already use qt. Let me know if you guy's see a kde hack for these products.
(I'm a BB Passport user since 2015, btw.)
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