Do not set compositor bypass hint for SDL Window #216
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I happen to be trying out the KDE desktop on Ubuntu 18.04 today.
SDL2 sets a hint that disables the KDE compositor which results in desktop glitching at startup and shutdown. I found this a poor experience, but possibly what you'd want on a slow/cheap system or in fullscreen mode, to maximise performance.
This code change works for me. The alternative in KDE is to disable this globally or whitelist the application to specifically ignore the hint.