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Compositor marks entire framebuffer as damaged on each frame

Submitted by haarp @haarp

Assigned to Olivier Fourdan @olivier

Link to original bug (#12789)

Description

When Xfwm's compositor is enabled, it unconditionally marks the entire framebuffer as damaged, on every frame. This can cause performance problems under certain conditions, such as when used with intel-virtual-output:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96820#c3

Furthermore, it's definitely not power-efficient, which is a factor in laptops and mobile devices.

Version: 4.12.0