Comment 128 for bug 1690719

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In , mike@papersolve.com (mike-papersolve) wrote :

(In reply to rk from comment #112)
> And as I understand it, the reasons behind the mouse lag are well understood
> - they're due to the fact that
>
> > Stalls on the main thread stalls compositor frame redraws
>
> and this has been directly addressed in the GNOME Shell 4 proposal
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/GnomeShell/GnomeShell4 and people
> have talked bout it here in the previous comments.

Exactly. This is why the easiest 'fix' here is to just go back to using Xorg which is what I am doing. I like the idea of Wayland but it can't be the default for GNOME until we can get past this issue, and there is no easy fix, which is why nothing has really been done.