It seems gpu is being forcelly throttled causing the UI to be slow like as if I am using over a VNC

[phoscoder]

System details

PC: 21HES5TB2C (ThinkPad T14 Gen 4)

What's wrong?

Hello guys It seem my Omarchy is just slow as if there is something is choking my UI and this behaviour happens in bursts, it happens, works well, then its slows again

Keybaord slows down
Mouse lags and slows down
UI becomes slow

Its like I am using my system over a VNC

Can you help me

I was tempted to vibe fix this via Claude and Chat but its not working

 PC: 21HES5TB2C (ThinkPad T14 Gen 4)

──────────────────────── Hardware ────────────────────────
 CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1365U (4+8) @ 5.20 GHz
 GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics @ 1.30 GHz (Integrated)
󱄄 Display: 3440x1440 (34") @ 60 Hz (External)
󰋊 Disk: 177.80 GiB / 474.92 GiB (37%) - btrfs
 RAM: 23.12 GiB / 30.99 GiB (75%)
󰓡 Swap: 617.19 MiB / 4.00 GiB (15%)

──────────────────────── Software ────────────────────────
 OS: Omarchy 3.6.0
󰘬 Branch: master
󰔫 Channel: unknown / stable
 Kernel: Linux 7.0.2-arch1-1
 WM: Hyprland 0.54.3 (Wayland)
 Terminal: ghostty 1.3.1-arch2
󰏖 Packages: 1177 (pacman)
󰸌 Theme: Catppuccin
 Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font (12pt)

──────────────────────── System ──────────────────────────
󱦟 OS Age: 167 days
󱫐 Uptime: 15 hours
 Last Update: Friday, May 01 2026 at 00:51

I have attached log file

hyprland-lag-log.txt

[NicolasDorier]

Same, Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 12, but I don't think it is omarchy issue. See hyprwm/Hyprland#13902

Rider was so unable due to the stuttering that I decided to switch for a gamer's laptop...

Sometimes the problem would disappear.

[phoscoder]

Thanks @NicolasDorier

From my end I did do an omarchy reinstall and I havent seen the problem yet:

curl -fsSL https://omarchy.org/install | bash

So my suspicion now is this might have something to do with a custom theme and also configs that have rules which choke Hyperland on a 34 inch monitor

Current Fix

• Reinstall Omarchy

Tried Fixes (Which failed)

• Enforce gpu frequency via cpu power
• Disable some intel flags and rebuilt image
• Set the minimum frequence from 100 to 700

My assumption here was this had something to with a component called a scaling governer that is responsible for scaling cpu frequencies. I thought it was agressively throttling down my frequencies or at least delaying the scaling process so that my system chokes 🤣

For now I will avoid ricing my system and keep it as it is (and also learn more about arch, omarchy and hyperland)

[NicolasDorier]

Great it worked for you! I tried the fixes you mentioned too, and didn't work either.

I don't think it is the scaling governer on my side, because the bottlenck was the GPU, not the CPU.
But it may be something power related, as I noticed that the frequency of the GPU was super low (as well as the power use), even when it was at 100% use.

[phoscoder]

@NicolasDorier this didnt work I am now thinking of doing a reinstall

[NicolasDorier]

I doubt that will change anything, but if you do let us know :( No more problem on my side since I've gone from thinkpad to razer blade.

[phoscoder]

From my end I did re-install Omarchy from scratch and kept the refresh rate on 60 hz

I havent been seeing the problem as much I used to see it and I am confused 😆 whether my custom ricing attempts introduced configurations that works well on a 24 inch monitor but the same does not work smoothly on a 34 inch monitor(intel GPU struggles to draw those which causes issues)

[phoscoder]

@NicolasDorier

I am using Pop OS now and I havent experienced any issues to do with stuttering

So Omarchy was the culprit, how? I dont know but its like have to do with how it renders/draws on a 34 inch using iGPU.

@dhh I wish this was resolved but if it wont be fixed, .....thats fine :|, will continue using Pop Os for main work

[NicolasDorier]

@phoscoder it's using hyprland?

[phoscoder]

@NicolasDorier no its using Cosmic Desktop

[NicolasDorier]

Frankly, I highly suspect some hyprland bug hyprwm/Hyprland#13902

[28allday]

did you try to disable Intel PSR

[phoscoder]

Hello @28allday is there a good guide on how to do that

Or can you guide me on how to do that

[28allday]

pop it into your local friendly AI, claude or Chat gpt

"I’m running Omarchy (Arch Linux) with Hyprland on a ThinkPad T14 Gen 4 using Intel Iris Xe and the Limine bootloader — please give me step-by-step instructions to disable Intel PSR by adding i915.enable_psr=0 to my Limine kernel parameters, including how to verify it worked after reboot."