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Re:Thinkpad X210 by mbell on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:08PM (#19415775)
If your fan is spinning up when scrolling in Slack it's likely an indication that Electron (Chrome) is refusing to use the GPU for rendering acceleration. This is likely either due to a driver issue or the driver/gpu being on chrome's blacklist. I had this problem once on a hackintosh and as I recall starting Slack from a terminal with the `--ignore-gpu-blacklist` option fixed it.
Re:Thinkpad X210 by admax88q on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:11PM (#19415806)
Why should I need GPU acceleration to read irc messages.
Re:Thinkpad X210 by mbell on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:22PM (#19415914)
Almost all the pixels on your screen are rendered through a GPU accelerated pathway, if they weren't even the desktop with no apps open would be rather sluggish.
Re:Thinkpad X210 by recursive on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:27PM (#19415942)
Because you're using a graphical ui.
Re:Thinkpad X210 by v-yadli on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:06AM (#19420389)
and then the GPU fan turns on instead. :p