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> The windowing system is not a compositing window manager 8½ perhaps wasn't, but Rio is a compositing window manager.
by f2f 10y ago
> The windowing system is not a compositing window manager
8½ perhaps wasn't, but Rio is a compositing window manager.
- pcwalton 10y agoNot in the modern sense of compositing GPU buffers.
- mveety 10y agoSince when does the window manager have to use the gpu to be considered a compositing window manager?
- pcwalton 10y agoThis has devolved into a fairly pointless semantic debate. What I'm saying is that rio is not built around compositing hardware surfaces, like all modern windowing systems (DWM, Mac CGS, Wayland) are. A windowing system that is not architected this way will always have inferior performance, and retrofitting the proper design onto an existing one based on memory buffers and drawing commands is difficult to do (see all the problems with XCOMPOSITE).