Animation Performance

[israelblenn]

I'd really like to run this on my thinkpad t480s but the animations are pretty choppy. Any way to turn off animations or optimise performance?

Other than that this set up is pretty much perfect <3

[kooroshkz]

Hey! You can try disabling or reducing animations by checking the config files — look for any settings like:

"animations": false

or

"transitionSpeed": 0

Also, try switching to a lighter compositor or disable blur effects, if enabled.

If nothing helps, open an issue asking for a "low-performance mode" — might be useful for others too.

Feel free to mark this as the answer if it helps!

[Axenide]

Is this AI? There are no options for this in Ax-Shell, and the only supported compositor is Hyprland.

[Axenide]

Hi @israelblenn! Animations being choppy is a tradeoff I had to make for stability. Before, I was using exclusively CSS animations, and it worked, but crashed a lot of times. Now it doesn't crash (at least not that often) but looks choppy because I'm using GTK native animations.

With that being said, I'm gonna try to implement a toggle for animations and see if it works. :)

I'm currently working on reimplementing Ax-Shell in Quickshell, but once Fabric is ported to GTK4, Ax-Shell will be too and with that it'll have better performance, since GTK4 implements GPU acceleration.

[israelblenn]

Makes sense. For now I've found it works alright when performance mode is enabled, which is probably not great for battery life but it's something. A quick toggle for animations would be a nice medium-term solution, but I'd be sad to sacrifice them forever. The Quickshell / GTK4 routes sound promising enough to wait around for! Thanks for all your hard work :)))