moonpie I tried XRandr and OpenGL backends and the image was causing me headaches. It’s only with this latest version of Kubuntu when I put Vulkan as a backend I experience no pain. Vulkan and XRandr backends produce different image quality on my laptop. So I assume Vulkan in my setup is something different than software rendering. I can only say try this setup yourself. I don’t get any bugs and rendering is working.

    If you just want to turn off the compositor, just do it in the settings, or press shift-alt-F12.

      Sunspark On my crunch bang plus plus Debian install, all you have to do is remove the cbpp-compositor line from your ~/.config/openbox/autostart:

      (\ nitrogen --restore && \ cbpp-compositor --start && \ sleep 2s && \ tint2 \ ) &

      And that disable compositing. That results in a pretty decent desktop for me

          3 months later

          ensete Thanks for the tip I tried this (pasted those lines one by one, don't know how else to do it a .sh file?) and I get this error message:

          "tint2: another systray is running, cannot use systray"

          What shuld I do?

            Well, the first thing you should do is know what environment people are using.

            My comment was for KDE, ensete's was for openbox wm, yours is for xfce.

            I don't agree disabling compositing is necessary every time.

            But for xfce, you can do this: settings > desktop settings > select Xfwm4 instead of Xfwm4 + compositing

              ensete oh I think I got it! It's working really well, I think it solved my problems on my 2014 asus laptop!!! Now do you think I would ruin everything if I install chromium, parsec (with its dependencies) and qredshift? what should we avoid installing for our case? Thank you

                Sunspark I'm a complete noob with linux, I just tried this crunchbang os and I'm loving how the screen feels, so I'll use it with VNC to my main machine

                  19 days later

                  Solus 4.6, KDE Plasma 6.2.4. Vulkan is available in system menu both for Wayland and for X11

                    Ivan_P does this setup work well for you? vulcan rendering on Wayland/KDE?

                        reaganry no difference between software/Vulkan/OpenGL.

                        I don't know if Vulkan working properly on my laptop since with with it I couldn't open any system viewer like settings viewer or files manager

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