Firefox scrolling lag while using Compiz
I’m using fglrx driver now and have enabled Compiz. I’m not using smooth scrolling in Firefox but found that default Firefox scrolling is lagging in Compiz. Here is a little solution.
If you have XGL installed (xserver-xgl), go and remove it, it lags even more. Then open your xorg.conf for editing. Alt+F2 and type gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Find this line in device section Driver "fglrx", after this line put new lines:
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
I have other lines too, that can help in video rendering:
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "on"
Save file and then logout and login back (restart xorg server). That should help.
Holy Crap thank you so much. This has been bothering me for as long as i can remember
Sock Lee
January 24, 2009 at 10:53
wow, this totally helped me out too. I upgraded my asus w/ATI grapics to Intrepid recently and this lag/scrolling problem hit me. Your post totally cleared it up. Thanks!
Adam
February 18, 2009 at 11:06
How about on 11.04 where there is no xorg.conf?
avejidah
August 19, 2011 at 18:12
actually you can create one if needed
egaistek
August 20, 2011 at 04:20