https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152911

--- Comment #76 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to ppaanncchhoo507 from comment #75)
> (In reply to ppaanncchhoo507 from comment #74)
> > (In reply to Michael Weghorn from comment #52)
> > > (In reply to danileon95 from comment #51)
> > > > This bug makes LibreOffice **unusable** on a Wayland session. I'm on a
> > > > high-end system with a Ryzen 5800X and an RTX 4070Ti Super, on the 
> > > > latest
> > > > driver, and trying to scroll through a 20-something page document is
> > > > unusable, and I'm not being hyperbolic, the program just cannot be used 
> > > > like
> > > > this.
> > > > 
> > > > I won't pretend to know why this issue is taking so long to fix, but I 
> > > > do
> > > > have a question. Why not disable Wayland support by default if it's a 
> > > > known
> > > > fact that it's broken? Then re-enable it once it's not broken?
> > > 
> > > The experience seems to differ, depending on unknown factors. For example,
> > > in my setup (s. below for system details), there is a clearly noticeable
> > > (and annoying) lag on Wayland as compared to X11, but LO is still usable.
> > > 
> > > Forcing LO to run on XWayland would be quite a "radical" step, and not 
> > > what
> > > other users may be expecting. (I suppose that while Plasma Wayland has
> > > matured a lot over the last years, choosing to run Plasma X11 is still 
> > > what
> > > some do whose primary goal is to avoid odd Wayland-specific issues. Others
> > > explicitly want Wayland and might not be happy about it silently "not 
> > > being
> > > used" by some apps.)
> > > 
> > > One aspect is also that disabling Qt's wayland QPA plugin by default would
> > > also mean that LO no longer gets used/tested with it - meaning that other
> > > potential issues are presumably not reported and fixed either.
> > > 
> > > So in my opinion, forcing to run on X11 would require very strong reasons.
> > > (As I said, the experience I get in my setup isn't that bad, maybe would 
> > > be
> > > useful to know more exactly what is causing the difference).
> > > 
> > > I think one could also argue that the qt6/kf6 VCL plugin shouldn't be used
> > > by default at all, but the gtk3 one instead (which can be forced by using
> > > SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3), because it's the most mature one on Linux.
> > > 
> > > Of course, any help to further analyze and fix the issue are more than
> > > welcome. After all, LO is an open source project that welcomes 
> > > contributions:
> > > https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/
> > > 
> > > > I'm currently resorting to launching LibreOffice from the terminal every
> > > > time so I can pass the QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb envar ONLY to LibreOffice, 
> > > > but I
> > > > don't think that's a reasonable solution. LibreOffice should default to 
> > > > X11
> > > > until the Wayland backend isn't broken.
> > > 
> > > If you don't want to manually set the environment variable every time, one
> > > approach could be to modify the LibreOffice shell wrapper and set the
> > > environment variable there.
> > > Or, as mentioned above, set SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 in your ~/.bashrc or
> > > similar.
> > > 
> > > Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12
> > > KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0
> > > KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
> > > Qt Version: 6.7.2
> > > Kernel Version: 6.12.12-amd64 (64-bit)
> > > Graphics Platform: Wayland
> > > Processors: 32 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900HX
> > > Memory: 62.5 GiB of RAM
> > > Graphics Processor 1: Intel® Graphics
> > > Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
> > > Manufacturer: TUXEDO
> > > Product Name: TUXEDO Gemini Gen2
> > > 
> > > Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
> > > Build ID: 8710a20fabcb8892d8f1f2ae917101028db61e39
> > > CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: qt6 
> > > (cairo+wayland)
> > > Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
> > > Calc: threaded
> > 
> > From my testing it seems to happen only on RPM-based distros. Not sure if
> > others can reproduce.
> 
> nevermind, on the latest 25.2 update to libreoffice it happens on ubuntu
> now. I will need to run this with a debugger....

given that the problem is that rendering takes too long while scrolling, i
suspect the issue to be the use of software rendering instead of hardware
acceleration

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