[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2019-04-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
For what is worth, the new update mechanism has been ported to LyX 2.3.1. Currently, this is only available on Disco, which has LyX 2.3.2. It is of course available through the ppa for older versions. I would be very interested to know whether this new scheme (basically "do things as it should

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2017-12-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Even better, you could try to test latest master of LyX, where a new screen painting strategy has been implemented. This may eventually be backported to the 2.3 series at a later time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2017-07-12 Thread Scott Kostyshak
You can test LyX's development version (do not use for any serious work and expect the worst) by using this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/ubuntu/daily Install the lyx2.3pre package. Whether it fixes the issues or does not fix the issues, the developers would be very interested

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2017-07-10 Thread Radomír Černoch
I'm running Ubuntu 17.04 with the 375.66 driver and GeForce 1080. LyX's performance on my machine is very bad, exactly as described above. Scrolling and typing make the Xorg process use 100% CPU. I'd be happy to help by testing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2017-04-15 Thread full name
I just saw [here](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/129813) that this might be related to more general NVIDIA related X issues, that are [supposedly solved in the latest X 1.19](https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/976844/xorg-1-19-support/). I am on a fresh test install of

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2017-04-15 Thread full name
I am suffering from this bug too. While scrolling, Xorgs cpu usage increases (moderatly), while the process lyx uses 100% CPU. Scrolling too far causes the window to grey out, typing text becomes impossibly complicated due to the lag. None of the proposed fixes above changes anything for me ...

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2016-09-05 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Version 2.2.1 on Ubuntu 16.04: scrolling is still very slow. No other applications on my OS behave like this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 Title: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2016-09-05 Thread Christopher Barrington-Leigh
Sorry -- I meant to add that using "-graphicssystem raster" only makes it worse. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 Title: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow To manage notifications about

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-08-03 Thread Evan Langlois
Any progress? Copy To Texture isn't helping anymore and if I don't type slowly, it starts dropping characters and giving me non-sense. The whole input buffer gets trashed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-08-03 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Thanks for the feedback. There has been no progress. If you want though, you can try the development version of LyX. To do that, try the daily PPA: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3 I don't think it will fix this issue, but if you want to take 1% chance that it will fix the issue, and a

Re: [Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-08-03 Thread Evan Langlois
I'm desperate - I already did it. Worse .. I didn't know the file format changed, so now I can't go back for the file I'm working on. The old version of LyX no longer reads it! *sigh* On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote: Thanks for the feedback. There has

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-08-03 Thread Scott Kostyshak
File Export 2.1.x will convert it to 2.1.x. You can even convert to older formats in the File Export More Formats Options men. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 Title: lyx

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Evan Langlois
I just changed from the proprietary ATI driver to Radeon (as a result of switching to kernel 3.16) and this bug now affects me. I'm pretty sure its the driver. I'm also using compiz. Not sure why LyX is so slow when other apps aren't, but a multi-Ghz machine should be able to keep up with how

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
With my LyX developer hat on: It is known indeed that LyX has problems with the way display is handled. Unfortunately, nobody is has the right amount of knowledge and free time to fix that currently. I would be interested to know what happens if you add to your preferences file (usually in the

Re: [Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Evan Langlois
This is incredibly weird. I added the line to preferences ... If I start with Copy To Textures off, its OK an I can turn Copy To Preferences back on while Lyx is running and it looks like the preferences line has fixed things. It looks very quick like this. I then turned Copy To Texture back

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
I would not try to change compiz settings while LyX is running. You are hurting yourself just for the pleasure of it :) Could you give a synthetic report about the 2*2 possible settings of LyX*Compiz ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
The quote I was looking for is: SMITH: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. DALE: Don't do that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 Title: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow To manage

Re: [Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Evan Langlois
Sometimes doing things that no sane person would do gives insights. Othertimes, it just hurts more. For some odd reason, it seems to be behaving exactly the opposite of how it was behaving initially as far as Copy To Texture, but maybe I had it in a different state when LyX started up. The

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Thanks a lot for veryfying this. Would you say that using these 'fast' setting is a good solution or are there drawbacks for other applications? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Another thing to try: lauch LyX with option -graphicssystem raster This uses a different rendering path in Qt, supposedly faster. If you come up with something, you can add it to our wiki, presumable here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu -- You received this bug notification because you

Re: [Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Evan Langlois
Honestly, I have no idea what Copy To Texture was set to before I killed the proprietary driver. I could never see a difference turning it on before. But, trying to get rid of the driver lost OpenGL until I fixed it, and that made Compiz turn off half a dozen plugins. So - who knows how things

Re: [Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Evan Langlois
Well, I tried it. Seemed to work, played with all previous options and none of them could reproduce the bug. So .. to make sure that it was the -graphicssystem raster option that fixed it, I tried to reproduce the bug without this option .. and couldn't :/ I have changed nothing. Haven't even

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
A t least, yu end up in the desirable scenario. It could have been worse :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 Title: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow To manage notifications about this

Re: [Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2014-07-22 Thread Evan Langlois
I managed to get the bug back - not sure why its intermittent. I've been playing with it for hours and if I bang away like a mad monkey for 5 or 6 lines, then it enters an extra-slow mode where it misses keypresses. I'm guessing some sort of race condition. Its easier to trigger when the system

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2011-06-21 Thread Donjan Rodic
In the meantime I've switched to a new machine (Core i) and Lyx 2.0.0 final on Debian. CPU usage of one core (of four) still rockets up when scrolling/writing in a large LyX window, but it's smooth enough and works without big lags. So for me this is solved, I'm afraid I'm not going to debug my

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2011-03-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
I would propose to recompile with --enable-build-type=prof, compile, and then run LyX under a profiler like sysprof. This should show what is the process that uses all the time. If it turns out that it is X, then I am not sure how to proceed. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2011-03-26 Thread Donjan Rodic
After compiling and running the latest LyX 2.0 RC1, the problem still persists. My minimise workaround got a bit more tedious (having to retry a few times). The lag (with maxed out CPU usage) happens when both scrolling and writing (but not when opening menus) and depends on the window size. For

Re: [Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2010-12-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 19 déc. 2010 à 23:32, Pavel Sanda a écrit : Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Running on a machine with Ubuntu 10.10 64bit and Lyx 1.6.7 as well as 1.6.8. Not sure if it's the same bug, but in my case, I isolated the problem to a simple procedure: Close everything (best to reboot) and start up

Re: [Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2010-12-20 Thread landroni
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: evince is not qt based, so i cant imagine what can cause such interference. do yo se some clipboard manager btw? I don't, but I am not the author of the comment. I can ask,

Re: [Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2010-12-20 Thread landroni
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: Could there be some connection between evince and LyX (related to forward/backward search)? I've been reading the descriptions in the bug report, and I'm wondering if some of them are not related to the table

Re: [Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2010-12-20 Thread landroni
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Liviu Andronic wrote: I don't think 1.6.7 provides this functionality, unless the user is using some fancy config. but if he uses, then backward search using lyx pipes can be related, the pipe handling code is dark enough ;)

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2010-12-19 Thread Donjan Rodic
Running on a machine with Ubuntu 10.10 64bit and Lyx 1.6.7 as well as 1.6.8. Not sure if it's the same bug, but in my case, I isolated the problem to a simple procedure: Close everything (best to reboot) and start up only your LyX file. Scrolling and writing should be fast even with big

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2010-12-17 Thread LundLinux
It persists in lyx 2.0.0. My solutions is to switch to console mode and back again, ctrl+alt+F1 and then ctrl+alt+F8(F7). Then the speed is great, for a while...;) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2010-10-10 Thread Jens Janssen
Kosumo, thank you for your detailed description. But the overall speed is not a matter of key strokes. It is slow from the beginning (marking text, copy/paste, typing, scrolling...). It feels like a remote desktop. -- lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 You

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2010-10-10 Thread Kosumo
@Jens, Yeah... that was exactly what I experienced in my computer last year. At the moment, I use Lyx 1.6.4 on Ubuntu 9.10 and I have no problem with it because mostly I only write around 20 or 30 pages per file. I know it is annoying problem especially if you have a lot of pages to write or

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2010-10-09 Thread Jens Janssen
I use Ubuntu 10.10 but the problem is still persistent. ** Tags added: lyx scrolling slow sluggish typing -- lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2010-10-09 Thread Kosumo
The easiest way to deal with this problem is to divide your work into several parts. For example if you write a thesis, you can divide your work into several chapters. You just create a master lyx document and you can put there only the title of all chapters. For the detail of each chapter you

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2009-11-04 Thread arno_b
I have this problem when I use an external screen (22'') with my netbook (samsung N510). I think that the graphical card has some difficulties to manage lyx with a big screen. -- lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2009-11-04 Thread arno_b
oops.. I use karmic -- lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2009-06-17 Thread wch
Same issue with Intel 945GME on a Dell Mini 9. -- lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2009-06-17 Thread wch
I found that upgrading to QT 4.5.1 (from Karmic alpha) improved performance a lot. Scrolling isn't instantaneous on my computer, but it is much, much better, and it may be because my computer is an underpowered netbook. Instructions here:

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2009-05-20 Thread Kosumo
I found the same condition. I am using lyx 1.6.2 on Ubuntu Jaunty. My graphic card is Intel GMA X3100 graphics. Anyone find the solution? -- lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Dickson
I am using lyx 1.6.2 on Jaunty and have extreme typing delay when working on my large project report (currently ~40 pages long). It's straightforward to type more than four or five words ahead of what is displayed on screen and this causes lyx to grey out while it catches up. This is extremely

[Bug 353449] Re: lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow

2009-04-29 Thread Johannes Hessellund
I found that the slowdown was actually my xorg driver. I have a radeon7500 using the radeon driver. Switching to XAA acceleration fixed this. Now scrolling and typing is just like Intrepid. See bug #363238. -- lyx 1.6.x impossibly slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353449 You received this