Chrome/Chromium's EXO Now Supports Hardware Cursors

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Phoronix: Chrome/Chromium's EXO Now Supports Hardware Cursors

Thanks to David Reveman, there is now hardware cursor support for EXO...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=EXO-Hardware-Cursors

[Azrael5]

this means that in the next releases chrome will enable hardware acceleration by mouse?

[Alejandro Nova]

I've been a fan of his work since the Compiz days. David will deliver.

[smitty3268]

this means that in the next releases chrome will enable hardware acceleration by mouse?

This is about Chrome OS.

[Azrael5]

This is about Chrome OS.

thanks for answer. So only Chrome OS will have this feature. No linux distros will take benefit of it.

[andrei_me]

What this is useful for? Less lag, smoothly transitions?

[Azrael5]

What this is useful for? Less lag, smoothly transitions?

very interesting question. My opinion is that less conflicts because of mouse, cpu or gpu processes involved.

[andrei_me]

very interesting question

Thanks, it is something that I miss in some phoronix articles, some explanation of the usefullness/meaning of the news, like the spilling for RADV, after the answer from Bas, it was clear that spilling was very important

[Azrael5]

Thanks, it is something that I miss in some phoronix articles, some explanation of the usefullness/meaning of the news, like the spilling for RADV, after the answer from Bas, it was clear that spilling was very important

Sometime also me ask for explanation of the effects about innovation presented on the posts. However I hope the author will provide for future arguments.