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Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Tearing Control Support
A one year old merge request to support Wayland's Tearing Control protocol (tearing-control-v1) has finally been merged into the Sway compositor codebase.
There is also the ability with Sway to force enable/disable tearing for a specific application(s) based on window rules. While Wayland started out with the emphasis that every frame is rendered perfect, the tearing control protocol ultimately came about for those not caring about every frame being rendered perfectly but wanting to achieve maximum performance. XWayland and other compositors have already added tearing control protocol support.
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