Description: libreoffice is lagging while i'm scrolling or typing. the lagging has been occuring at least since my OS (Fedora) is using plasma 6 (but i can’t rule out wether the problem has occured earlier, because i haven’t been using libreoffice much back then). i tried measuring the cpu load, but i didn't recognize anything suspicious. notably it only happens on my laptop but not on my desktop-pc, although the software-configurations (OS etc.) are identical. i tried unsuccessfully: - using the .rpms from the fedora repsoitory (with gtk and kf6 backend) - using the flatpak version - using the appimage version - enabling/disabling the “wayland”-permission of the flatpak version (i.e. the lagging occurs on wayland native and xwayland as well) - enabling/disabling the “direct graphic rendering”-permission of the flatpak version - enabling/disabling screen zoom at OS level - enabling/disabling adaptive sync at OS level - enabling/disabling the “[ ] use hardware acceleration”-checkbox in the libre office settings (section: libre office → view) - enabling/disabling the “[ ] use anti-aliasing”-checkbox on the libre office settings (section: libre office → view) - enabling/disabling the “[ ] smooth scroll”-checkbox in the libre office settings (section: writer → view" - i tried scolling with the mousewheel instead of the laptop’s trackpad - i tried different icon themes - trying different (or disabling completely) the power saving modes - using different files: it occurs even on very "basic" files, like writer (i.e. .odt) files that only contain text. - trying a clean user profile the affected laptops’s system details are: ------------------------------------------ Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0 Qt Version: 6.8.1 Kernel Version: 6.12.6-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition Memory: 14,3 GiB of RAM Graphics Stack: --------------- Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics 660M GBM platform: EGL API version: 1.5 EGL vendor string: Mesa Project EGL version string: 1.5 EGL client APIs: OpenGL OpenGL_ES EGL driver name: kms_swrast OpenGL core profile vendor: Mesa OpenGL core profile renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.0, 256 bits) OpenGL core profile version: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 24.2.8 OpenGL core profile shading language version: 4.50 LibreOffice: ------------ Version: 24.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: bb3cfa12c7b1bf994ecc5649a80400d06cd71002 CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: de-DE (en_US.UTF-8); UI: de-DE Flatpak Calc: threaded (for comparison: specs of my desktop-pc, which is working fine:) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0 Qt Version: 6.8.1 Kernel Version: 6.12.6-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland ryzen 2700x (8-core), 32 ddr4-2933, radeon r9 380 4GB => i guess the problem is somewhere in the graphics stack, as the GPU is the only major relevant hardware/sofware difference between my desktop pc and my laptop. Steps to Reproduce: 1. open libreoffice (e.g. writer or calc) 2. type and scroll Actual Results: severe lagging Expected Results: smooth typing/scrolling experience Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: other users seem to be affected too, look here: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffice-performance-issues-on-linux/114920/16
it just got worse with the new update to 25.2.3. now even my desktop pc has problems too.
What if you launch with SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen libreoffice