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X.Org Server Patches Look To Cleanup VRR Handling, Make It Xinerama-Aware
Open-source developer Enrico Weigelt has in recent months taken to near single-handedly maintain and further enhance the aging X.Org Server codebase
Open-source developer Enrico Weigelt has in recent months taken to near single-handedly maintain and further enhance the aging X.Org Server codebase. "We don't have a standard protocol for enabling VRR yet, but some time ago an ad-hoc had been made in the amdgpu driver (later also copied to modsetting), which works by client setting the _VARIABLE_REFRESH window property. The (non-standard) status quo of (ab)using window properties is kept, but it's now also easy to add a new signaling mechanism, in case a standard is agreed on.
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