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> Even just resizing a Finder window in 2017 on my MacBook lags the cursor in a way that never happened on BeOS This might in part be because the compositor wh
by badsectoracula 9y ago
> Even just resizing a Finder window in 2017 on my MacBook lags the cursor in a way that never happened on BeOS
This might in part be because the compositor which syncs screen updates at 60Hz (or whatever your monitor uses) while the mouse cursor is drawn on top of that via the GPU.
It is one of the reasons i really dislike compositors, they make everything feel sluggish. The only exception i know of is XFCE's compositor which has an option to not do any form of vsync so you get immediate updates.
(although TBH i do not use compositors at all since i do not see the point, considering they are mainly used for frilly stuff like translucent windows with shadows that i personally avoid anyway)