Mnemosyne and MacBook Pro's discrete GPU

[manut...@gmail.com]

Every time I start Mnemosyne, the discrete GPU will kick in. Activity Monitor also shows that the app requires discrete GPU. I have to use gfxCardStatus to force the OS to use only the Intel card, and then it still seems to use more battery than usual.

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

 

Some googling turned up this:

 

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-29897

 

I put Devin, our Mac developer in CC. Devin, is this editing of Info.plist something that could be added to the Mac installer or does this require user intervention?

 

Cheers,

 

Peter

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[Devin Howard]

Hi,

I've posted https://github.com/mnemosyne-proj/mnemosyne/pull/39/files which will add this key to the list. Before merging, can you please verify that this change actually fixes the problem?

That is, edit /Applications/Mnemosyne.app/Contents/Info.plist with a text editor and add these lines:

  <key>NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching</key>

  <true/>

Mine then looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

  <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>

  <string>Mnemosyne</string>

  <key>CFBundleName</key>

  <string>Mnemosyne</string>

  <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

  <string>org.qt-project.Qt.QtWebEngineCore</string>

  <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>

  <string>MacOS/Mnemosyne</string>

  <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>

  <string>mnemosyne.icns</string>

  <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>

  <string>6.0</string>

  <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>

  <string>APPL</string>

  <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>

  <string>0.0.0</string>

  <key>NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching</key>

  <true/>

  <key>LSBackgroundOnly</key>

  <string>0</string>

</dict>

</plist>

Let me know if you're able to do that or if you need more guidance, and then once that's done if it solves the problem for you