kwin-lowlatency
archived - X11 full-screen unredirection and lots'a settings for KWin (by tildearrow)
kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp
Just Yet Another Magic Lamp effect (by zzag)
| kwin-lowlatency | kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp | |
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| 16 | 1 | |
| 375 | 158 | |
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| 4.9 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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kwin-lowlatency
Posts with mentions or reviews of kwin-lowlatency.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-05.
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PSA: FreeSync with HDMI 2.1 Screens now works on Linux.
Involved person commenting on it: https://github.com/tildearrow/kwin-lowlatency/blob/Plasma/5.23/unredirect.md
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Linus will use Steam Deck as daily driver for a month
There's a kwin-lowlatency that has an xorg unredirection (in latest versions) and automatic kwin suspend in kubuntu LTS repo
- Wayland - getting there!
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KDE Goals brainstorming
There is already fullscreen unredirection implementation in kwin-lowlatency but it doesn't work good with multi-monitor and the dev isn't planning to upstream it soon afaik
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No clue which door, answers this Linux question?
Maybe attach a bounty offer to a specific feature request in the bug-tracking database, as these guys did: https://github.com/tildearrow/kwin-lowlatency/issues/56 ?
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Do I even need kwin-lowlatency any more ?
On the github page, the author said that kwin-lowlatency is not dead because of full-screen unredirection capabilities with eliminating stuttering without force composition pipeline (force composition pipeline increase latency and reduce performance I believe).
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What's the one big thing(s) missing in Linux gaming besides EAC?
This didn't go away when disabling full screen unredirection. https://github.com/tildearrow/kwin-lowlatency/issues/95
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Is it just me, or does the Linux **desktop** experience kind of feel lacklustre?
Piggybacking here: Recent Kwin versions had lots of changes internally. If you're already on newest version, try Kwin-lowlatency or KwinFT.
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How to reduce Input Lag?
You can read up on some stuff here regarding KDE: https://github.com/tildearrow/kwin-lowlatency
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Why is the compositor disabled if a fullscreen game is minimized?
It used to be there as a feature: fullscreen unredirect. But due to some bugs the kwin team removed it. Last time I checked, https://github.com/tildearrow/kwin-lowlatency supported unredirection and also ran much smoother on high refresh rates.
kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp
Posts with mentions or reviews of kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Latte shows the window peek when hovering the icon when it should be doing it when hovering the window preview
But I suggest don't use default kde magic lamp Use this instead: https://github.com/zzag/kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kwin-lowlatency and kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp you can also consider the following projects:
kwinft
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
gamemode - Optimise Linux system performance on demand
kwin-quarter-tiling - An easy tiling script for KWin
raspotify - A Spotify Connect client that mostly Just Works™
krohnkite - A dynamic tiling extension for KWin
wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin - A kde wallpaper plugin integrating wallpaper engine
kwin-tiling - Tiling script for kwin
GitKlient - Git gui client for KDE
KDE-Rounded-Corners - Rounds the corners of your windows in KDE Plasma 5 and 6
Bountysource - Bountysource is the funding platform for open-source software.
librespot - Open Source Spotify client library
kwin-lowlatency vs kwinft
kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp vs bismuth
kwin-lowlatency vs gamemode
kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp vs kwin-quarter-tiling
kwin-lowlatency vs raspotify
kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp vs krohnkite
kwin-lowlatency vs wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin
kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp vs kwin-tiling
kwin-lowlatency vs GitKlient
kwin-effects-yet-another-magic-lamp vs KDE-Rounded-Corners
kwin-lowlatency vs Bountysource
kwin-lowlatency vs librespot