kwin-lowlatency 5.16.2 sort of released

2019/06/25 12:46 PM (UTC -5) | tildearrow

i have been working on a fix to the unredirection issue when Battle.net is open/in the tray (or for any other application that uses the old tray mechanism), but I am surprised to see that it didn't work for anyone besides me... edit: it does work!

so this release has a fix that may not work yet, but 5.16.2-2 is coming soon with a much better fix.

the official changes from upstream are:

• smart placement of abnormal windows is now avoided to fix a bug.
• a minor Plasma Mobile-related fix.
• you can now use KWin Wayland without XWayland without crashing.
• Qt Quick windows are now non-VSync'ed to prevent freezes under hybrid graphics systems. i'm not sure if this adds latency, or is related to the freezes that occurred few weeks ago. when i tested, however, I may have seen a latency increase, although I am not sure...

you can find the project here.