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Announcing: Frog Protocols for Wayland 🐸

Let's create Wayland Protocols but much more iterative.

Wayland Protocols has long had a problem with new protocols sitting for months, to years at a time for even basic functionality.

This is hugely problematic when some protocols implement very primitive and basic functionality such as frog-fifo-v1, which is needed for VSync to not cause GPU starvation under Wayland and also fix the dreaded application freezing when windows are occluded with FIFO/VSync enabled.

We need to get protocols into end-users hands quicker! The main reason many users are still using X11 is because of missing functionality that we can be shipping today, but is blocked for one reason or another.

Check out the repo here! https://github.com/misyltoad/frog-protocols

and the Mesa MR that adds support for frog-fifo-v1 to fix these issues and goes into much more detail: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/31329/

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Show threadIan Douglas Scott

@frog I guess I still need to get around to figuring out what is require to implement the fifo protocol.

If Mesa merges this, it should be reasonable to add Rust bindings for frog-protocols to wayland-rs, and use this in Smithay. It will be nice to see fifo presentation finally working.

Sep 23, 2024 at 9:37pmWeb
Show threadMigrated to @[email protected]Sep 23, 2024
@ids1024 not much really, just changes how you deal with commit queueing.

gamescope has its own private protocol that does the same thing, and it was only a few lines change, bar the protocol boilerplate