VMware Workstation 11 and kwin - hangs and hiccups (solved?)

Since updating to VMware Workstation 11 (from the Gentoo vmware overlay), I've experienced a lot of hangs of my KDE environment whenever a virtual machine was running. Basically my system became unusable, which is bad if your workflow depends on accessing both Linux and (gasp!) Windows 7 (as guest). I first suspected a dbus timeout (doing the "stopwatch test" for 25s waits), but it seems according to some reports that this might be caused by buggy behavior in kwin (4.11.21). Sadly I haven't been able to pinpoint a specific bug report.

Now, I'm not sure if the problem is really 100% fixed, but at least now the lags are much smaller- and here's how to do it (kudos to matthewls and vrenn): 

• Add to /etc/xorg.conf in the Device section

  Option "TripleBuffer" "True"

• Create a file in /etc/profile.d with content

  __GL_YIELD="USLEEP"
  

  (yes that starts with a double underscore).
• Log out, stop your display manager, restart it.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out what these settings do. (Feel free to explain it in a comment. :) No guarantees of any kind. If this kills kittens you have been warned. Cheers.