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mikkupikku 5 days ago

Using a compositor fixes screen tearing, no need to use Wayland for that.

phkahler 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>> Using a compositor fixes screen tearing, no need to use Wayland for that.

Right, and that abandons the whole X drawing API in favor of passing around client drawn bitmaps. That was one of the big points of Wayland too - X has a whole bunch of stuff that no modern apps use anyway so lets throw it out and build up a better version of the capabilities we need.

If we abandon the X drawing API and half an OS included (memory management) and use KMS, all that's left is the features that are security holes.

marmight 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Even a compositor is unnecessary to fix screen tearing these days: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...