Issues

• dropping frames on a modern GPU

  chriskearney/chonkstep#320 · Filter by author tidux opened on Sep 28, 2026
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• Flaky e2e test: delayed_real_copy_followed_by_one_burst_switch_and_paste_keeps_clipboard_order

  bug
  chriskearney/chonkstep#310 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 26, 2026

• Epic: September 2026 gap analysis and code audit, making ChonkStep the best compositor for Omarchy

  code-healthgap-analysis
  chriskearney/chonkstep#288 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• ChonkStep serves no wp_drm_lease_device_v1 global, so a VR runtime cannot lease a headset's connector and PC VR cannot run on this desktop

  enhancementgap-analysisprotocolsession
  chriskearney/chonkstep#287 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• Every explicit-sync commit waits an extra loop pass and costs an eventfd, a loop source and a 1 s timer, even when its buffer is already finished

  code-healthperformanceprotocol
  chriskearney/chonkstep#284 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• Dragging between an X11 app and a Wayland app does nothing, because no XDND bridge exists and the vendored Smithay XWM offers none to build on

  enhancementgap-analysisprotocol
  chriskearney/chonkstep#282 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• A crash leaves thin evidence, because panics log no backtrace, Xwayland's own error output goes to /dev/null, and chonkstep-bugreport says no recovery happened

  enhancementgap-analysissessionsilent-failure
  chriskearney/chonkstep#281 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• xdg-toplevel-drag-v1 is not advertised although the installed Chromium and Qt 6 link it, so no window can follow the pointer during a drag

  enhancementgap-analysisprotocol
  chriskearney/chonkstep#280 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• Mesa, Qt 6 and SDL3 bind wl_fixes, wp_pointer_warp_v1 and wp_alpha_modifier_v1, and ChonkStep advertises none of them

  enhancementgap-analysisprotocol
  chriskearney/chonkstep#276 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• Translucent panels sit over a sharp desktop, because ext-background-effect-v1 is unserved and the renderer has no backdrop pass to blur behind a surface

  enhancementgap-analysisperformanceprotocol
  chriskearney/chonkstep#274 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• xdg Suspended is only sent to minimized windows, so clients parked on another workspace, behind the lock screen or on a dark output are never told

  enhancementgap-analysisprotocol
  chriskearney/chonkstep#273 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• Scanout is pinned to 8-bit and no color-management protocol is served, so 10-bit and HDR client content is composited down to 8-bit sRGB

  configenhancementgap-analysisprotocol
  chriskearney/chonkstep#272 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• An Omarchy theme's authored border colours, gradient and shadow are read from its hyprland.lua and discarded, so window edges never wear the theme's own accent

  configenhancementgap-analysisomarchy
  chriskearney/chonkstep#271 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• Games cannot opt out of vsync: wp_tearing_control_v1 is not served and every page flip is synchronous, so a fullscreen game always waits for the next refresh

  enhancementgap-analysisperformanceprotocol
  chriskearney/chonkstep#270 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• VRR policy is fixed at direct-scanout-only: misc:vrr is not read, a monitor line's vrr field refuses the line, and wp_content_type_v1 is not served

  configenhancementgap-analysishyprland-ipcprotocol
  chriskearney/chonkstep#269 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• Each focus, click and raise rebuilds the full transient parent graph several times over, though parent links change only at map, reparent and destroy

  code-healthperformance
  chriskearney/chonkstep#268 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• The vendored Smithay 0.7.0 differs from its archive in 33 files, six patch sets are missing from its ledger, and nothing checks the tree against its checksum

  code-healthenhancement
  chriskearney/chonkstep#267 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• wm-core manager tests keep 5,100 lines inline, eight ad-hoc desktop builders and three pasted rule doubles, with no shared invariant helper

  code-healthenhancement
  chriskearney/chonkstep#266 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• The GLES context is created without reset notification and is never rebuilt, so a GPU reset cannot be detected or recovered in place

  enhancementgap-analysissession
  chriskearney/chonkstep#265 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• Backend trait and wm-core carry dead surface, from a cloning monitors() and an uncalled restack to a never-read Client::monitor and a test-only SIZE_LOCKED

  code-healthdocumentationenhancement
  chriskearney/chonkstep#264 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• wm-core re-asks the backend for size hints on every resize motion and twice per window per layout solve, and on X11 each ask is a blocking server round trip

  code-healthperformance
  chriskearney/chonkstep#263 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• X11 click-to-focus can leave a visible window with no passive grab, because four focus-clearing paths skip the re-grab that only focus_client_with installs

  bugcode-health
  chriskearney/chonkstep#262 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• state.rs mixes seven subsystems in 5,436 lines and several doc comments sit on the wrong items; fix them, fold the copied helpers, then split the file

  code-healthdocumentation
  chriskearney/chonkstep#261 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• XWayland window-manager callbacks find their window by scanning the whole window ledger, and the lookup is copied three times with two different identity rules

  code-healthperformance
  chriskearney/chonkstep#259 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026

• manager.rs is one 9,918-line file mixing focus, workspaces, drags, window state and chrome with 5,100 lines of inline tests; split it along its existing seams

  code-healthenhancement
  chriskearney/chonkstep#258 · Filter by author chriskearney opened on Sep 13, 2026