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> Wayland is also, with its forced composition, hostile to interactive applications requiring low latency, e.g. video games. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/arti

> Wayland is also, with its forced composition, hostile to interactive applications requiring low latency, e.g. video games. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gnomes-mutter-gets-fullscreen-unredirect-supported-on-wayland.16457 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gnomes-mutter-gets-fu...

andreyv 6y ago
In fast-paced games it is essential to disable vertical synchronization as well, trading possible tearing for less input lag. Does Wayland support this?
- pas 6y ago
  You can draw to the OpenGL/EGL surfaces directly (Weston 5.0+ has composition bypass).
- jhasse 6y ago
  Yes.
nsajko 6y ago
Yeah, this is exactly what I'm talking about, with the feature only coming in 2020 and being specific to Gnome.