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Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"
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Doesn't KDE kinda have that same refresh rate issue on Wayland? I remember seeing a bug that Qt has a limitation in this regard, In the video I saw the workspace transition ran at the lower refresh rate when multiple monitors were used.
Thankfully I stopped using multiple monitors so I can't personally confirm.
KDE plasma wayland user since 5.20 specifically because the x11 version would bug out on me having a 240hz monitor alongside my 60hz drawing tablet. Plasma 6.7 has fixed basically every bug with refresh rate/animations I've had at this point including that frame rate one(which I think was caused by the animation reading from disk instead of ram?)