Termux (older phones)
Make It Faster in Termux
Speed up a distro in Termux - the light profile (andronix tune), and the Termux:X11 and VNC resolution.
This page is for Andronix with Termux. For Linux in the app, see Make it faster.
Use the light profile
The light profile turns off desktop effects (compositing, animations), file thumbnails and some background apps, and uses 16-bit colour at 1280x720 over VNC. In Termux:
andronix tune debian --profile lightThe change applies the next time you start the desktop. To go back, use --profile balanced. To see the current profile and your phone's RAM, run andronix tune debian.
On phones with less than 3 GB of RAM, desktop installs start with the light profile automatically.
The light profile only adds its own settings on top of the desktop's, so your themes and any Modded OS look stay as they are.
Lower the resolution
- Termux:X11 draws the desktop at the phone's resolution. If it feels slow, lower the resolution in the Termux:X11 app's preferences. (The light profile's VNC settings don't apply here.)
- VNC, if you use it: a smaller screen size is faster, for example
vncserver-start 1280x720, and lower picture quality in the viewer helps too.
Good habits in Termux
- Turn off battery optimization for Termux, so Android doesn't slow it down in the background.
- Use the command line (
./start-debian.sh) for work that doesn't need a desktop.