Off the Compositor: How Strata Fixes GNOME's Fundamental Clipboard Problem

Clipboard manager stuttering in GNOME isn't a performance-tuning issue—it's architectural. Extensions run on the single thread shared with the compositor, meaning any synchronous work freezes the desktop and gets exponentially worse as history grows. Strata's solution demonstrates that moving work off the compositor thread is essential for responsive GNOME tools, revealing why every existing clipboard manager struggles with the same fundamental constraint.