With chromium version 87.0.4280.141-0.1 installed.... I have commented now in /etc/chromium.d/default-flags...
##export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --use-gl=desktop" ...and desktop GL implementation is used as foreseen. How can I switch back to ANGLE libs? Just curious. export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --use-gl= ??? " Thanks. - Sedat - On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 10:15 AM Jan Luca Naumann <j.naum...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > The reason I prefer at the moment the way to change the order in the > code is that there it is checked if the desktop implementation is an > allowed choice. I do not know what the behavior would be if this is not > a valid choice for some case but we use the command line flag. > > The patch still allows to use "--use-gl=" in > /etc/chromium.d/default-flags if people want to use something else for > their installation. > > Best, > Jan > > Am 09.01.21 um 08:03 schrieb Sedat Dilek: > > Hi, > > > > Jan Luca is working on a patch "Use desktop gl implementation as default"... > > > > What about placing "--use-gl=desktop" in /etc/chromium.d/default-flags > > as an alternative? > > > > # Default for GPU hardware-acceleration (Debian bug #979135) > > export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --use-gl=desktop" > > > > Cannot say if this is wanted behaviour - to enable GPU hw-accel by default? > > Looks like a safer methon when GPU hw-accel is wanted. > > > > In my logs I found references to Skia renderer... > > > > [ chrome://flags ] > > > > Skia API for compositing > > If enabled, the display compositor will use Skia as the graphics API > > instead of OpenGL ES. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Android > > Here set to "Default" > > > > [ chrome://gpu ] > > Graphics Feature Status > Skia Renderer: Enabled > > > > Cannot judge when not using ANGLE libs if there is a fallback to OpenGL ES. > > Might be OpenGL ES renderer is the better choice? > > > > I have not looked for the parameters and cannot say I will play with them. > > > > ( BTW, I played with Vulkan support enabled - slow performance here > > with Intel Sandy Bridge GPU. ) > > > > Regards, > > - Sedat - > > > > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/janluca-guest/chromium/-/commits/angle_fix > > [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/chromium#Force_GPU_acceleration > > [3] > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/chromium#Hardware_video_acceleration > > >
