Saturday, April 04, 2020

Cinnamon does not go with blueberry

No, this is not about food.

I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon, and had been experiencing serious, visible screen lag. When the computer first starts up, things are okay. But the lag starts to appear after a while.

Eventually, after trying all kinds of stuff, from reinstalling display drivers, turning on and off Cinnamon effects, and many many other stuff, I came upon a post that said that it could be the Bluetooth manager (blueberry) that is causing such lags. So I turned it off... and voila! No more lag!

Sidenote: Older Cinnamon applets can cause lag too. Like some of the older system monitor apps out there. Multi-Core System Monitor (multicore-sys-monitor@ccadeptic23) works for me.

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