EWMH 1.6 with frame synchronization?

Po Lu luangruo at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 25 09:13:45 UTC 2022


Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> writes:

> The confusion is that the timestamps can't be generated "directly" but
> must still wrap in the same way X server timestamps. In other words,
> it's fine to source your timestamps directly from the monotonic clock,
> if it's concluded that the X server uses it, but you must still make
> sure you wrap the values as if the milli second part is encoded using a
> unsigned 32 bit integer. Mutter got this wrong in the past, and it
> results in wierd bugs with frozen GTK frame clocks after almost two
> months of uptime.

Yes, that's what I said ought to be clarified.  I'm sorry I wasn't too
clear there.

So aside from that, what else is preventing the protocol from being
included in the wm-spec? And how can I help get it included?

Thanks a lot in advance.


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