Hi, I have recently begun porting a window written in Win32 API to X11. Under win32, I set up a conditional timer to send a window redraw event for a maximum framerate. This way, the redraw event gets handled like any other window or UI event. Can the equivalent be acheived in X11? A separate drawing thread works but i'd like it sync'ed with the rest of the UI.

Following up, I created my own timer class and reverted the rendering thread to single threaded. I'm giving up on the idea I could send a draw event through a custom threaded timer class as I did in win32. Turns out that sending custom xevents to the xserver is a good way to hose X11 and have to hard reboot. who knew! The single threaded way seems to be easier and is o.k. on timing.