The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input

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Phoronix: The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input

One of many improvements we have been looking forward to with GNOME 40 is Mutter now having a separate input thread with its native back-end for Wayland...

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[pal666 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pal666]

is there a list somewhere tracking what's left to be done to have gnome maximally responsive on modern hardware including 1000 hz mices, high hz monitors, multiple monitors and freesync?

[mirmirmir Phoronix Member Find all posts View Profile Close mirmirmir]

is there a list somewhere tracking what's left to be done to have gnome maximally responsive on modern hardware including 1000 hz mices, high hz monitors, multiple monitors and freesync?

well, closest thing is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutte...ort=popularity

[timofonic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close timofonic]

is there a list somewhere tracking what's left to be done to have gnome maximally responsive on modern hardware including 1000 hz mices, high hz monitors, multiple monitors and freesync?

I would like to know it too!

[Aryma Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Aryma]

Anyone know how KDE handle this matter?

[lakerssuperman Phoronix Member Find all posts View Profile Close lakerssuperman]

The blog says a fix for the freezing cursor isn't done yet and is coming in the future. Does future mean Gnome 41?

[f0rmat Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close f0rmat]

The blog says a fix for the freezing cursor isn't done yet and is coming in the future. Does future mean Gnome 41?

I am waiting for Gnome 42. That (in the Gnome world) will be the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Now if I only knew what the question was...

[aufkrawall Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close aufkrawall]

Anyone know how KDE handle this matter?

Plasma still uses old non-atomic hardware cursor interface that works the same as on Xorg (i.e. no lag and stutter).

[MastaG Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close MastaG]

I wish they'd squeeze some more of these merge requests, even if it could cause regressions...
Then they can just fix them before the first .1 release

[leipero Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close leipero]

The blog says a fix for the freezing cursor isn't done yet and is coming in the future. Does future mean Gnome 41?

Just don't use wayland, it's nowhere near usable despite what others might say.