I came here from a discussion on the Hyprland repo a few months back: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/discussions/10823#discussioncomment-13601563
I was initially planning to just bide my time until maybe, just maybe, someone with more know-how would have the same issue I have and take action on it, but I figured maybe reaching out couldn’t hurt? To preface, I do not have the technical knowledge to fully *understand* what I am asking for, as in what would have to be done to support such a functionality. I also want to say that I am not coming from the perspective of gaming, as there have been many strides in conditional tearing control. This is about the desktop experience. As I’m sure you all know, in X11, assuming one hasn’t modified the functionality in some way, the cursor is updated as soon as possible. This means minimal latency, at the cost of barely noticeable tearing on the cursor plane, and artifacts where, as an example, a window you are dragging will lag behind the cursor. Now, obviously for a lot of users, the latency trade-off is worth the more visually perfect frame, but there are some people (Hi!) who would be willing to sacrifice that perfection for a more responsive system. What I am asking for, put simply, is functionality that allows an end-user to enable this behaviour and accept the trade-offs that come with it. I really hope this can start a discussion, and maybe, hopefully, lead to this becoming a reality.
