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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Disabling the Xorg XSync extension

From the EWMH documentation (http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spe … atest.html):

_NET_WM_SYNC_REQUEST
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By using either the Alarm or the Await mechanisms of the XSync extension, the window manager can know when the client has finished handling the ConfigureNotify events. The window manager SHOULD not resize the window faster than the client can keep up.
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I don't want this, since it creates the impression of sluggishness for applications that redraw slowly. So it looks like I could prevent it from working by disabling XSync, right?

But how can I do that? Is the SYNC extension mentioned in the Xorg log file the same as XSync? If so, how can disable it when it's built in at compile time?