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		Toutouxc on Jan 31, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rubywm: An X11 window manager in pure Ruby I know very little about window managers, but I know a bit about Ruby, so... Does this have any performance implications?

vidarh on Jan 31, 2025 [–]

Nothing noticeable. X11 wm's receive high-level events, such as windows opening, closing etc., they're not in-band for anything computationally heavy unlike e.g. Wayland compositors.

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