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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by voldacar on Sunday July 07, 2019 @02:54PM (#20376983)
>For gaming, the latency is bad and always on vsync is horrible. They've fixed the 60Hz lock though, fortunately. This only applies to gaming though.

So there is no way for a game to bypass wayland and write directly to the fullscreen framebuffer? You're just stuck with an extra frame or two of latency?

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by pantalaimon on Sunday July 07, 2019 @03:38PM (#20377270)
The idea of using DRM Leasing to allow the full-screen app to exclusively grab the framebuffer for itself has been floated around.

I'm not sure how graceful the alt+tab behavior of this approach would be though.

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