(In reply to Olivier Fourdan from comment #2)
> Actually it seems to affect gtk2 and Qt based apps and I think this could be
> related to the use of the _NET_WM_SYNC protocol v1 by these toolkits.
Well, not just v1 actually, forcing X11 backend on gtk3-demo and resizing service-side decorated windows can exhibit the problem as well.
And I cannot reproduce with _NET_WM_SYNC disabled ("window->disable_sync = TRUE;" in meta_window_x11_update_sync_request_counter() from window-x11.c)
(In reply to Olivier Fourdan from comment #2)
> Actually it seems to affect gtk2 and Qt based apps and I think this could be
> related to the use of the _NET_WM_SYNC protocol v1 by these toolkits.
Well, not just v1 actually, forcing X11 backend on gtk3-demo and resizing service-side decorated windows can exhibit the problem as well.
And I cannot reproduce with _NET_WM_SYNC disabled ("window- >disable_ sync = TRUE;" in meta_window_ x11_update_ sync_request_ counter( ) from window-x11.c)