- From: Dennis Nezic <address@hidden>
- To: TeXmacs <address@hidden>
- Cc: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: Newer qt5 texmacs is slow while editing
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:12:45 -0400
- Organization: My Other Backup Email Address
I'm running Gentoo's texmacs-1.99.11 ebuild, on an x86_64 cpu. I'm
trying to compile it without Qt, to see if that changes anything.
On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:33:56 +0100, TeXmacs wrote:
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Hi Dennis,
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That is bad news, but note that the official releases are still based
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on Qt4; the Qt5 version is currently in a test phase. Could you give
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us more details on your system and what version of TeXmacs you are
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using (do you use some pre-compiled binary or did you do the
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compilation yourself)?
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Best wishes, --Joris
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 09:52:57PM -0400, Dennis Nezic wrote:
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> I don't think this is the same question covered in the FAQ, which
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> places the blame on bad 2d gpu drivers. I was comfortably using the
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> older non-qt 1.0.7 version for years before, so I think it's
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> something new that was introduced between then and the 1.99
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> series :P. Is there anything I can do to try speeding things up?
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> With the new qt5 based version, my cpu regularly hovers above 50%,
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> even while typing basic non-math stuff. Even using my left/right
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> keyboard keys to move through text, my cpu often reaches 70%. Heck,
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> even pressing the Home or End keys can spike my cpu to 80%, and
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> there is a frustrating delay before the cursor actually visually
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> jumps.
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