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With single-screen, Unity is fast in opening apps, switching between opened apps, etc. When I use dual-monitor then i see considerable drop in performance in the above mentioned areas. Overall system performance comes down to a crawl. I opened the same apps when using both single and dual-monitor. Is it a know bug? I'm on 11.10. |
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If your laptop has an Intel N10 graphics chip, it may be this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/830949. If so, an easy way to test is to lower the resolution of the external display until the sum of horizontal resolutions totals less than 2048. If it turns out to be that problem, you have several options. One is to arrange the screens vertically rather than horizontally (the idea is that everything must fit in a 2048x2048 matrix, so as long as your monitors don't add up to more than 2048 in either direction you should be fine. The second option is to use Unity2d, which doesn't trigger this bug. |
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I've had this issue with ATI Radeon X2100. Slow performance was with Unity in general, not only 3D. However GNOME did't work much faster anyway. After few other bugs I've changed to 10.04 LTS and there are no problems. |
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