René Dudfield

The keyword arguments issue: https://github.com/pygame/pygame/issues/808 I have these questions to help us decide if the trade off of not using keyword arguments is worth it for us: - [ ]...

> Currently, I am leaning on waiting a bit more to see how things progress on other projects going this way Same. Will wait. buildconfig is fine for now, but...

I added an issue for buildconfig modernization. Probably the first step to replacing it is cleaning it up so the linter and type checker are at least running on it....

I'm not sure if joy really should be removed.

If it's used in old programs I don't think it should be removed. Why break them? I'm fine to deprecate it, but I don't think we want to remove it.

> Though I generally wouldn't rely on the display surface after any call to set mode as generally it changes shape or other things during the set_mode() call that is...

Here's the documentation for [_NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#idm46035372472224) that SDL_VIDEO_X11_NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR uses. >_NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR, CARDINAL/32 > > The Client MAY set this property to hint the compositor that the window would benefit from running uncomposited...

I can't reproduce on Ubuntu bionic with python 3.6 pygame 2.0.0.dev20 SDL 2.0.12.

@xandark are you using X11 or Wayland?

Oh, great. Thanks for the report :)