src/ChromeDecoration.cpp

@@ -460,7 +460,12 @@ void ChromeDecoration::damageEntire() {
   // The shadow hangs outside the decoration's own box (it's drawn, not
   // reserved - see ShadowMarginLogical), so damaging just that box would
   // leave its outer reaches stale.
-  g_pHyprRenderer->damageBox(FullDecorationExtentGlobal().expand(ShadowMarginLogical()));
+  //
+  // The extra pixel covers the gap ChromePassElement::draw()'s rounding can
+  // open: it rounds the device-space position and size separately, so the
+  // box's far edge can land up to a device pixel past where this logical box
+  // scales to. One logical px is at least that much on any scale >= 1.
+  g_pHyprRenderer->damageBox(FullDecorationExtentGlobal().expand(ShadowMarginLogical() + 1.0));
 }
 
 double ChromeDecoration::ShadowMarginLogical() {

src/ChromePassElement.cpp

@@ -21,7 +21,26 @@ std::vector<UP<IPassElement>> ChromePassElement::draw() {
     return {};
 
   auto box = data.decoration->FullDecorationExtentGlobal();
-  box.translate(-monitor->m_position).scale(monitor->m_scale).round();
+  box.translate(-monitor->m_position).scale(monitor->m_scale);
+
+  // Round the position and the size independently, rather than via
+  // CBox::round(). That derives the size from the two *rounded corners*
+  // (round(x + w) - round(x)), which makes it a function of the position's
+  // fractional part - so a box that is merely sliding, at a perfectly
+  // constant size, has its rounded w/h flip by a pixel every few frames.
+  // Every one of those flips misses the caches in GetBorderTexture /
+  // GetShadowTexture / GetTitleTexture, each miss being a full cairo
+  // re-render plus a GPU re-upload of a texture that didn't actually change
+  // appearance - which is precisely what a workspace switch, a window move,
+  // or any other position-only animation does, every frame, for every window
+  // on screen. Rounded on its own, the size stays a pure function of the
+  // window's own size and can't be perturbed by translation at all.
+  //
+  // What round()'s coupling buys is a far edge that lands on the same device
+  // pixel as an adjacent box's near edge. Nothing abuts this box - it's a
+  // free-floating decoration drawn over everything - so there is no seam here
+  // to keep closed.
+  box = CBox{box.pos().round(), box.size().round()};
 
   if (box.w < 1 || box.h < 1)
     return {};