xfce4-panel issueshttps://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues2024-01-26T12:00:00Zhttps://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/811Updating panel elements (e.g. Clock or system monitor plugins) cause lag / st...2024-01-26T12:00:00ZShallrathUpdating panel elements (e.g. Clock or system monitor plugins) cause lag / stutter in video playback and gamesI have the same problem that is described in [this old issue in xfce4-systemload-plugin](https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-systemload-plugin/-/issues/7): Whenever something in the panel automatically updates itself, be it the s...I have the same problem that is described in [this old issue in xfce4-systemload-plugin](https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-systemload-plugin/-/issues/7): Whenever something in the panel automatically updates itself, be it the seconds on the clock or one of the system load graphs, I get a small stutter during video playback (YouTube) or games or the unigine-superposition benchmark.
It does not seem to matter if it comes from a built-in feature (displaying seconds on the clock) or a plugin (system monitor). Removing the system monitor plugin from the panel and disabling the seconds on the clock stopped the stuttering. Suspending the processes of the plugins with 'kill -19' also worked, but only on the plugins as the clock doesn't have its own process and I don't want to suspend the whole panel.
This is how it looks like: I let the unigine-superposition benchmark run in game mode (standing still for most constant frame times) and traced the frame times with mangohud. Displaying seconds on the clock has already been disabled but the frametime spikes produced by the clock looked just the same as these:
xfce4-systemload-plugin enabled with update interval 500ms
![Screenshot_2024-01-23_18h36m05s](/uploads/b36d2e2c0682b361e6d076df3c23e955/Screenshot_2024-01-23_18h36m05s.jpg)
xfce4-systemload-plugin removed from the panel:
![Screenshot_2024-01-23_18h35m13s](/uploads/7faf9bff1cf35935e0244c652f545a84/Screenshot_2024-01-23_18h35m13s.jpg)https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/610Make the XFCE panel energy efficient / power management aware2024-01-26T12:00:01ZArtem S. TashkinovMake the XFCE panel energy efficient / power management awareWhen the screen saver kicks in, the monitor is turned off via DPMS or there's a full screen application running which hides everything, all the applets on the panel continue to listen to timing events and update themselves unnecessarily....When the screen saver kicks in, the monitor is turned off via DPMS or there's a full screen application running which hides everything, all the applets on the panel continue to listen to timing events and update themselves unnecessarily.
Would be great if panel and everything on it "hibernated" when it's hidden.
~~At the same time I've noticed that the DateTime plugin after resuming from software suspend doesn't update itself momentarily, so you may observe the wrong time for up to 59 seconds.~~https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/554Animations are CPU Intensive and definitely not "minimalist", so should not b...2022-04-07T18:37:03Zd3faultAnimations are CPU Intensive and definitely not "minimalist", so should not be in the default panel configThe default panel setup for Xfce should not include animations. Animations are CPU intensive. I've run Debian Xfce on a Raspberry Pi 1 and the animation of the bottom panel took like 5 minutes to complete (ok I'm exaggerating).
I'm *not...The default panel setup for Xfce should not include animations. Animations are CPU intensive. I've run Debian Xfce on a Raspberry Pi 1 and the animation of the bottom panel took like 5 minutes to complete (ok I'm exaggerating).
I'm *not* suggesting removing the animation and keeping the bottom panel, since that leads to precious screen real estate being wasted and I already filed a bug report about that years ago ( https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14918 ). Instead I propose completely removing the bottom panel. I've been using Xfce for about a decade (probably will for the rest of my life) and the first thing I do after installing is delete the bottom panel. It's just useless. Every button down there can instead be put on the top panel, to the right of the "Applications" button, but to the left of the "open windows" section. On Microsoft Windows these are often referred to as "quick launchers".
It seems like the only reason the bottom panel is there is to mimic the MacOS look; but really you shouldn't, Apple sucks.
Kinda Off-Topic (but actually pretty related): The Applications Menu in top-left of screen should not show the "button title" (the word "Applications") by default, it should just be an icon. Or maybe a compromise could be to shorten the word to "Apps"?