Renderer

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Latest · Entry 05

A slow app can't freeze your desktop

How Vela keeps the cursor and every other window on time when one app's GPU falls behind: from 47 missed refreshes to 0.

10 October 20264 min read

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10 October 20265 min read

Following the monitor, not a timer

How Vela decides when to draw: one clock per monitor, animations computed for the moment you'll see them, and frames drawn as late as safely possible.

10 October 20264 min read

Why Vela has its own renderer

Vela is built on wlroots, but draws everything itself, with its own scene and a Vulkan-only renderer. Why I made that choice, and what it cost.