Re: Mac G5 X11 performance
Justin Hibbits <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 28 May 2019 09:35:50 -0500 Jason Bacon <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that qt5-core is fixed, I was able to install x11/lumina. > > GUI performance is vastly better under Lumina than LXDE. > > It still snags fairly frequently when the system is under load, but > most of the time it's perfectly fine. > > Still no GL support, but I can live with that. > > If I could just get a full-featured browser and email client working, > I could actually sit at this machine for typical work. > I use claws-mail for my email client on my AmigaOne X5000, and it works well enough. Used it on my G5, too. Otter-browser "works", but crashes with large images and javascript (javascript can be disabled, so I did, but large images can't really be worked around). There's been chatter to port qt5-webengine to big-endian Linux, and shouldn't be hard to get on FreeBSD once that work is done. Firefox needs a lot of work as well. - Justin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"