Xfce 4.16 (for Porteus 5 RC2)

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Post#16 by babam » 26 Dec 2020, 08:38

@fulalas, It seems that the RAM usage on Xfce 4.16 is very low, lower than 4.14 and 4.12
Is that true?
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Post#17 by roadie » 26 Dec 2020, 17:23

fulalas wrote:
26 Dec 2020, 06:10
@roadie, cool! :good:

I'm playing around with aggressive compiler flags now. I've just built 4.12 from scratch using these flags. It's very experimental (and it doesn't come with whiskermenu nor poppler-data), but if you want to give it a try, here it goes: https://www.mediafire.com/file/jw4v7z30 ... 201225.xzm
fulalas,
It's a very fast desktop on my machine and light on resource usage. I never use whisker-menu, so that's no problem.
It's looking very nice.

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Post#18 by roadie » 26 Dec 2020, 17:56

babam wrote:
26 Dec 2020, 08:38
@fulalas, It seems that the RAM usage on Xfce 4.16 is very low, lower than 4.14 and 4.12
Is that true?
babam,
I just tested 4 different versions in Always Fresh mode, that is, base_only, no rootcopy, no changes of any kind. With 4.16, I included the pango xzm with the base modules.

Xfce-4.12-20201225 = 354MiB
Xfce-4.12-20201005 = 362MiB
Xfce-4.14-20201211 = 396MiB
Xfce-4.16-20201226-test = 408

Not a huge difference, but 4.12 definitely has the edge on my machine.

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Post#19 by fulalas » 27 Dec 2020, 07:53

@roadie, thanks for that! I was about to do the same test. :)

4.12 is definitely faster! But I'm not sure I can tell any difference between the regular build and the one using aggressive compiling flags. Can you?

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Post#20 by babam » 27 Dec 2020, 11:42

fulalas wrote:
27 Dec 2020, 07:53
4.12 is definitely faster!
4.14 vs 4.16, which is faster?
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Post#21 by roadie » 27 Dec 2020, 20:07

fulalas wrote:
27 Dec 2020, 07:53
@roadie, thanks for that! I was about to do the same test. :)

4.12 is definitely faster! But I'm not sure I can tell any difference between the regular build and the one using aggressive compiling flags. Can you?
fulalas,

I've been using the test build with aggressive compiling flags for 2 days now, and I don't see a big difference in response time as opposed to the regular build. Both are very responsive and I've had no lags with either one.

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Post#22 by fulalas » 11 Jan 2021, 09:49

Rebuilt from scratch. All dependencies updated. Shouldn't be any visible difference though.

Please, let me know if you find any issues :)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1wj8d6k5 ... 210111.xzm
(15.5 MB)

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Post#23 by donald » 11 Jan 2021, 20:52

Hmm...I must have done it wrong.
Using your 003-xfce-4.16-20210111.xzm + pango-1.48.0-x86_64-1.xzm
with the Porteus-XFCE-v5.0rc2-x86_64.iso (md5sum 17e16e05f6d8d0f30d7092191c5da616)

No shut down or reboot, only log out.
Doing so and trying to log in as root = not possible.

Thunar > open as root > nope, nothing, also porteus settings centre , system info , activate module etc.
No authentication (Pw) window.

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guest@porteus:/opt/porteus-scripts/xfce$ sh ./thunar-root
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec ====
Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/env' as the super user
Authenticating as: root
Password: 
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ====
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

This incident has been reported.
guest@porteus:/opt/porteus-scripts/xfce$ 

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Post#24 by fulalas » 12 Jan 2021, 08:18

@donald, you're right. My mistake.

Please, try again, same link. :)

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Post#25 by fulalas » 12 Jan 2021, 09:43

New testing module.

Highlights:
1- removed GTK2, finally!
2- removed libcue;
3- removed Audacious;
4- added DeaDBeef;
5- module is even smaller :good:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/aoel3g3j ... 210112.xzm
(14 MB)

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Post#26 by Rava » 12 Jan 2021, 18:47

Please confirm the md5sum:

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10e2e891eb5f1eafb7d0fff6460437b3
Due to network issue had to interrupt and restart the download. Did a complete 2nd download which resulted in the same md5sum. :)
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Post#27 by fulalas » 12 Jan 2021, 20:52

@Rava, confirmed.

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Post#28 by donald » 13 Jan 2021, 01:40

fulalas wrote:
12 Jan 2021, 09:43
..removed GTK2, finally!
Why?

Xfce-4.16
Thunar crashed multiple times.

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Thunar[1198]: segfault at 418e5660 ip 00007f78a6b3f0dd sp 00007ffe67792ad0 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so

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Post#29 by fulalas » 16 Feb 2021, 04:01

roadie wrote:
25 Dec 2020, 20:17
Apparently it's caused by a bug in the AMD graphics driver and in my case was much more pronounced. The fix that works for me is the following in a terminal.

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xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -t string -s "glx" --create
Take a look at this changelog :)

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+- Do not prefer Xpresent on AMD/Radeon (#490)
https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/commit/ ... f78419d0c0

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Post#30 by roadie » 16 Feb 2021, 17:32

@fulalas,
It'll be nice to see another bug squashed. The amdgpu graphics seem to have a lot of them, not just with Xfce, but the kernel as well. I haven't used Xfce 4.16 in a while, I've been on 4.12 as I like the small size and response.

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