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Not all gain

Not all gain

Posted Apr 12, 2012 5:38 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Not all gain by dgm
Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

>There's no need to "stutter". Weston can use OpenGL to stretch current window contents if the application cannot provide a new buffer on time.

I tried that some years ago. It looks extremely ugly.

It's much better to simply draw an empty overlay rectangle showing the future window's size.


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