GNOME Adds Bit To Launcher Files For Indicating Apps That Should Run On Discrete GPUs

[RahulSundaram]

Ugh, why isn't this a FreeDesktop standard?...

FreeDesktop isn't a standards organization really. It literally is part of the freedesktop desktop spec however and it is referenced from the blog post

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#recognized-keys

[Guest]

FreeDesktop isn't a standards organization really. It literally is part of the freedesktop desktop spec however and it is referenced from the blog post

https://specifications.freedesktop.o...ecognized-keys

How competent people do they have? How this name got past reviews to the spec? NonDefault could mean anything, as default might vary heavily,..

[remenic]

Most desktops have a default powerful GPU and a non-default slow GPU (iGPU for Intel CPUs). I wonder whether games or blender will now execute on our Intel cards by default...

Really, it should have been PreferPowerfulGPU=true/false, because that's why the implementation really does, according to the blogpost. Or even better, PreferGPU=high-performance/low-energy/none. "PrefersNonDefaultGPU" seem to be a very confusing name indeed.

I think that yes, it will then run on the slower gpu. Hence why the suggested names don't make sense, and this one does.

[cl333r]

What a horrible name? What it means non-default? More reasonable name would be "prefer high performance gpu".

Isn't half of Linux/Open Source activity about choosing wacky or stupid names?

[Tomin]

That option doesn't guarantee that the software is using the non-default GPU even if it's set to true. I bet it's just ignored on computers that don't need it, i.e. on computers that use the more powerful graphics by default.

[skeevy420]

Ugh, why isn't this a FreeDesktop standard?...

I'm quoting FreeDesktop above

[DanL]

Most desktops have a default powerful GPU and a non-default slow GPU (iGPU for Intel CPUs).

Isn't the integrated GPU disabled in BIOS/EFI most of the time anyway?

[kparal]

Isn't the integrated GPU disabled in BIOS/EFI most of the time anyway?

Mine wasn't, out of the box. The dedicated GPU was just set as the default one in UEFI.

[lucrus]

Mine wasn't, out of the box. The dedicated GPU was just set as the default one in UEFI.

Same here.

[sabian2008]

Whats the purpose of using the iGPU at all in a desktop if X is gonna be running in the dGPU? Serious question. I run it the other way around, iGPU handles my desktop, monitors, etc. and games and CUDA go to the dGPU.