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asterix

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Registered: 2025-09-15

Posts: 10

How to determine if XFCe is using HW Acceleration

The usage of GPU to do graphics and vectors rendering has the following benefit.
Firstly it speeds up the system performance
Secondly, for those on laptops or battery powered devices, it reduces the drain on the battery
Thirdly CPU utilization goes down.

However it is difficult to determine whether XFCe and XFWM compositor is using Hardware acceleration. So the question is how can it be determined whether XFCe and its components are using HW Acceleration? If there a command say like xinfo or xwininfo which can give this information out?

kagot

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Registered: 2025-07-28

Posts: 6

Re: How to determine if XFCe is using HW Acceleration

tru check would be done by:
1. running no desktop enviorment and measuring gpu usage by megs of memory occupied and % of busy time thru either nvidia-smi or amd gpu metrics file
2. runing xfce desktop and doing above emntioned measures
3. comapring if resource usage changed
the shortcut wae is just looking if in nvidia-smi xorg or wayland is listed as resource using programs and that mesa driver is not set as system renderer
the truth still be liek some parts are using gpu and some not depending on libraries building flags and whut is exactly calculated
btw. gpu is not magic thing and it uses alike power or even more to render things than cpu render especially in simple graphics as desktop environment
and for point liek cpu utlisation goes down ima not know whut exactly ur specs are but i hardy can remember cpu using more than 2 cores in anylike situation so why bohter cpu is used? if u worried u got lag spikes just set taskset to utilize anything excpet first core for other programs than desktop