Since upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie I have found the Linux desktop much more sluggish, both on a Pi (raspbian) and an X86 box (debian).
Both machines were set up with LXDE and openbox. Anyone with a similar setup also noticing real lag when moving windows, worse than before upgrading? I don't recall having to wait several seconds for the title bar to catch up with the pointer. Any thoughts on why this is happening or how to improve things? (any desktop settings worth tweaking or packages to add/remove?)
Of course it may simply be a case of too little CPU "grunt" - Pi's limitations accepted, and the X86 is a Via C3 at 900MHz so a long way short of P4 / dual core performance (it does not even have a full 686 instruction set, so uses the "486" variant of the i386 kernel). If so, perhaps a different wm / desktop would be an easier load - but which? I used to use XFCE (with own wm) and have switched the X86 back to that for now (partly because its logout/shutdown seems neater than LXDE's), but know that I've barely scratched the surface of wm's and desktops.
So, any recommendations for lightweight wm and reasonably user-friendly desktop?
Both machines were set up with LXDE and openbox. Anyone with a similar setup also noticing real lag when moving windows, worse than before upgrading? I don't recall having to wait several seconds for the title bar to catch up with the pointer. Any thoughts on why this is happening or how to improve things? (any desktop settings worth tweaking or packages to add/remove?)
Of course it may simply be a case of too little CPU "grunt" - Pi's limitations accepted, and the X86 is a Via C3 at 900MHz so a long way short of P4 / dual core performance (it does not even have a full 686 instruction set, so uses the "486" variant of the i386 kernel). If so, perhaps a different wm / desktop would be an easier load - but which? I used to use XFCE (with own wm) and have switched the X86 back to that for now (partly because its logout/shutdown seems neater than LXDE's), but know that I've barely scratched the surface of wm's and desktops.
So, any recommendations for lightweight wm and reasonably user-friendly desktop?