Graesslin Has Compositing Dreams, But is it Yours?
Martin Graesslin has a dream. He would like to devise a way to have an "always composited desktop." As far as Open Source dreams go, it's admirable, but it is advisable?
There are times when one might want to disable compositing. Graesslin's example is in the case of saving battery life. Other's might be when starting a 3D game or other heavy applications, watching movies, or with older or lower resource machines. For these examples, KWin's usual method of unredirecting, or disabling composite on a per application basis while the actual effects engine is still running in the background, might be ineffective, counter-productive, or unsupported in a given application.
Coincidently, a colleague has had the same thought and already begun the work. So far under the new method, applications can suspend compositing as whole, stopping the engine in the background as well.
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