Mate Desktop Environment - GNOME2 fork

[andrew5859]

I don't understand what you're saying.....that doesn't tell me where to find the file......Ok

[andrew5859]

I have no such file in /etc...now what

[stovenator]

I have no such file in /etc...now what

Are you running Linux Mint 12? Do you have /etc/lightdm/ folder at all? If so, what's in the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ?

[andrew5859]

Currently, no....that's on my other machine....I'm running LMDE/Sid/MATE on my laptop.....should I be addressing this to that particular thread?.....sorry if I misplaced this....cheers

[stovenator]

Currently, no....that's on my other machine....I'm running LMDE/Sid/MATE on my laptop.....should I be addressing this to that particular thread?.....sorry if I misplaced this....cheers

Yeah. That's why my original post said it wasn't Mate dependant.

Not sure which login manager is in use, but likely either LXDM or GDM3 . Do you have an option under System Tools for "login screen" ?

[andrew5859]

No....my laptop runs LMDE-Sid+MATE, so everything is a little different. Normally in LMDE there would be, but seeing how I've got Sid+MATE in here, it's changed a few things around. I am running GDM3 for the window manager, but it has no effect on the background being changed....I've already gone into the greeter for GDM3 and did that, I still have stripes for the background

[andrew5859]

I got it figured out.....take a look @ the "HOW TO's" over in LMDE forums....I appreciate all your assistance stovenator...have a great day....cheers


Andrew

[stefano-k]

Hi. The compiz+MATE high cpu usage shoud be fixed in mate-session-manager 1.1.2 (available in tridex). Can you confirm?

[xpander]

Hi. The compiz+MATE high cpu usage shoud be fixed in mate-session-manager 1.1.2 (available in tridex). Can you confirm?

allmost 2 hours now without any problems.
thx for fixing it

[stovenator]

Hi. The compiz+MATE high cpu usage shoud be fixed in mate-session-manager 1.1.2 (available in tridex). Can you confirm?

I see consistent 60% CPU utilization while compiz is running. Killing compiz drops the cpu down to about 3% .

AMD64 with Nvidia Driver

stovenator@laptop ~ $ uname -a
Linux laptop 3.0.0-14-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 21 20:28:43 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
stovenator@laptop ~ $ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -i "VGA"
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98M [Quadro NVS 160M] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Dell Device 024f
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
stovenator@laptop ~ $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 280.13 Wed Jul 27 16:53:56 PDT 2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)

With Compiz:

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  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                                                                                                                         
17254 root      20   0  175m  58m  38m S   17  1.5   0:28.13 Xorg                                                                                                                                                                           
17435 mark      20   0 63808 5796 2632 S    9  0.1   0:11.65 mateconfd-2                                                                                                                                                                     
17430 mark      20   0 25964 2176  860 S    8  0.1   0:11.76 dbus-daemon                                                                                                                                                                     
23244 mark      20   0  323m  37m  24m S    6  0.9   0:02.41 compiz                                                                                                                                                                         
17370 mark      20   0  235m 8304 6324 S    4  0.2   0:05.29 mate-session                                                                                                                                                                   
17442 mark      20   0  300m  12m 9404 S    2  0.3   0:02.90 mate-settings-d                                                                                                                                                                 
17460 mark      20   0  454m  20m  13m R    1  0.5   0:02.44 mate-panel                                                                                                                                                                     
17531 mark      20   0  243m  22m  10m S    1  0.6   0:01.56 applet.py                                                                                                                                                                       
17685 mark      20   0  177m  16m 8608 S    1  0.4   0:01.48 unity-window-de                                                                                                                                                                 
23141 mark      20   0  901m  77m  33m S    1  2.0   0:03.41 chrome                                                                                                                                                                         
17508 mark      20   0  304m  10m 7976 S    1  0.3   0:01.13 mate-power-mana                                                                                                                                                                 
23186 mark      20   0  403m  17m  11m S    1  0.4   0:00.54 mate-terminal

Without Compiz

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  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                                                                                                                         
17254 root      20   0  175m  59m  38m S    2  1.5   0:36.03 Xorg                                                                                                                                                                           
23141 mark      20   0  898m  74m  34m S    2  1.9   0:04.15 chrome                                                                                                                                                                         
23186 mark      20   0  404m  18m  11m S    1  0.5   0:00.76 mate-terminal                                                                                                                                                                   
23080 mark      20   0  680m  89m  33m S    1  2.3   0:04.07 chrome                                                                                                                                                                         
27487 mark      20   0 21460 1412 1000 R    1  0.0   0:00.02 top                                                                                                                                                                             
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.87 ksoftirqd/0                                                                                                                                                                     
 1992 rtkit     21   1 37664 1348 1120 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 rtkit-daemon                                                                                                                                                                   
17712 mark      20   0  361m  46m  11m S    0  1.2   0:01.48 ubuntuone-syncd                                                                                                                                                                 
23122 mark      20   0  836m  21m  11m S    0  0.5   0:00.12 chrome                                                                                                                                                                         
23131 mark      20   0  836m  22m  12m S    0  0.6   0:00.15 chrome

[stefano-k]

I see consistent 60% CPU utilization while compiz is running. Killing compiz drops the cpu down to about 3% .

are you using mate-session-manager 1.1.2? did you restarted the session?

[stovenator]

I see consistent 60% CPU utilization while compiz is running. Killing compiz drops the cpu down to about 3% .

are you using mate-session-manager 1.1.2? did you restarted the session?

Yes, using mate-session-manager 1.1.2-1 . I logged out and back in, but didn't completely reboot. Trying that now...

[stovenator]

I see consistent 60% CPU utilization while compiz is running. Killing compiz drops the cpu down to about 3% .

are you using mate-session-manager 1.1.2? did you restarted the session?

Still ~60% CPU after reboot:

$ dpkg -s mate-session-manager
Package: mate-session-manager
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: mate
Installed-Size: 2764
Maintainer: Stefano Karapetsas <stefano@karapetsas.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.1.2-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libmateconf, libsm6, libupower-glib1 (>= 0.9.0), libx11-6, libxau6, libxext6, libxrender1, libxtst6, mate-settings-daemon, mate-panel, mate-window-manager, mate-file-manager, mate-polkit, dbus-x11, upower
Description: MATE Session Manager
This package contains a session that can be started from a display
manager such as MDM. It will load all necessary applications for a
full-featured user session.
.
The session manager also features the ability to save a running session
an restore it later.
.
This version is configured to start the MATE desktop, based on the
MATE panel.

[kmb42vt]

I see consistent 60% CPU utilization while compiz is running. Killing compiz drops the cpu down to about 3% .

are you using mate-session-manager 1.1.2? did you restarted the session?

I can verify this.

I've upgraded to "mate-session-manager" version 1.1.2-1 and I'm experiencing the same type of thing. Enabling "compiz" in MATE runs all four of my CPU cores between 30% and 40% each at an idle without anything else running. Switching back to "metacity" does not drop CPU usage without logging out and back in again. Once I log out and back in all four cores are idling between 0% and 3% which is normal for me.

This is on my desktop PC. System specs are:

Linux Mint 12 64-bit running on - Intel Core2-Quad Q8400/4MB L2 Cache, 8GB DDR2, Nvidia GT-430 w/1GB DDR3 (280.13 Nvidia driver)

[xpander]

its some sort of marco bug (it keeps adding processes whithout closing them)
for me helped ln -s /usr/lib/libgnutls.so /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 (found from archlinux wiki)
and then killall marco into startup
no more cpu hogging then.


Before:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28788188/Screen ... 1%3A29.png

After:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28788188/Screen ... 9%3A29.png

[bongmaster2]

are play pause next/prev track hotkeys working for you?
for me they stopped working some time ago.

im runing latest tridex repos on 2 machines.

[kmb42vt]

I've just updated "mate-session-manager" from 1.1.2-1 to 1.1.2-2 this morning and I'm still seeing the problem of high resource usage with Compiz enabled. No change. That being said, I don't know if this update was meant to fix this particular problem.

[kmb42vt]

its some sort of marco bug (it keeps adding processes whithout closing them)
for me helped ln -s /usr/lib/libgnutls.so /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 (found from archlinux wiki)
and then killall marco into startup
no more cpu hogging then.


Before:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28788188/Screen ... 1%3A29.png

After:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28788188/Screen ... 9%3A29.png

I tried this and when adding "killall marco" into 'Startup Applications', MATE logs in without a window manager (no Minimize, Maximize or Close buttons, no window decorations). Windows will open but I can't close them or switch between them if one window is maximized since they don't show on the mate-panel. Also, when Compiz is enabled, resource usage is still high. Did I miss something here?

[xpander]

with compiz enabled you dont have decorations? strange
you could try this hack then ln -s /usr/lib/libmarco-private.so.0 /usr/lib/libmetacity-private.so.0
so compiz can take gtk decorations.
check here as well: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATE

its all hacky tho. but works for me so far without any problems and cpu hogging

[4z01235]

I'm also having the MintMenu applet problem, apt update && apt upgrade hasn't fixed it. I installed a bunch of applications before restarting my computer to discover than MintMenu had died, so I'd rather not try to step back through them all one by one to see which one killed the menu...