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Originally posted by bridgman View PostHow could Wayland prevailing over X.Org make a difference for KWin and Compiz (other than Wayland's compositor potentially eliminating the need for KWin and Compiz) ? The X stack and Wayland use the same drivers.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostHow's that an issue? Compiz can just take a screenshot of the window before minimizing and show that. Problem solved.
Not that I actually care about this feature though. If I want to see the window, I simply restore it first. You can't see much in a thumbnail anyway. The only issue here is the "ha, see? Linux can't do that" effect.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostI say this after having read the reply of X.Org devs to the main dev of KWin, telling him that neither Compiz nor KWin are the most important users of X.Org.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostIf you do the same on Windows though, you'll see that the thumbnail gets updated normally even when the window is minimized.
And it shouldn't, because I would hate to see a minimized window hogging major GPU resources just to keep a thumbnail updated.
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Originally posted by marek View PostHe said that StarCraft 2 is a much much more important user of Mesa/X.Org than KWin and that many people would gladly sacrifice Kwin if they could run SC2 or WoW. AAA games are one of the most important pieces of software for Linux consumers and generally for Linux success on the consumer market, not some desktop eye candy. That's the reality.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostThat's what KDE does. If you do the same on Windows though, you'll see that the thumbnail gets updated normally even when the window is minimized.
Though, windows is able to show the thumbnail, even though you haven't seen the window yet (app starting minimized). That is something kwin cannot do AFAIK.
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