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changelog: add rational for not using GrabServer

Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
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Yuxuan Shui 2024-06-27 17:50:55 +01:00
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* `xcb-dpms` is not needed anymore. * `xcb-dpms` is not needed anymore.
* `libXext` is not needed anymore. * `libXext` is not needed anymore.
## Behind the scene changes
* The X critical section is removed, picom no longer grabs the server to fetch updates. Hopefully, if everything works, this change is unnoticeable. Minor responsiveness improvements could be possible, but I won't bet on it. The main point of this change is this makes debugging much less painful. Previously if you breaks inside the X critical section, the whole X server will lock up, and you would have to connect to the computer remotely to recover. Now there is no longer such worries. This also avoids a bug inside Xorg that makes server grabbing unreliable.
# v11.2 (2024-Feb-13) # v11.2 (2024-Feb-13)
## Build changes ## Build changes