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Kicad very sluggish when some of its windows are hidden

Hello.

First I am sorry if this is not directly a wayland, as I am trying to find what causes it.

I run wayland, with sway 1.8.1, and I use kicad under xwayland.

The issue is quite simple to explain and reproduce, if any of kicad window is not directly visible, the whole application becomes very sluggish, with mini freezes all over the place.

I would really like to help pinpoint and fix this issue as it is the only major issue making kicad hard to use on wayland (xwayland).

References: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/7207#note_1357779464

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