The `--disable-renderer-backgrounding` command line switch only disables throttling for timers, there is currently no way to disable throttling of `requestAnimationFrame`.

Refs https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/4317#issuecomment-190990964.

atom/browser/api/atom_api_web_contents.cc
const base::ListValue& args) {
  return Send(new AtomViewMsg_Message(routing_id(), channel, args));
}
void WebContents::SendInputEvent(v8::Isolate* isolate,
                                 v8::Local<v8::Value> input_event) {
  const auto view = web_contents()->GetRenderWidgetHostView();
  if (!view)
    return;
  const auto host = view->GetRenderWidgetHost();
  if (!host)
    return;
  int type = mate::GetWebInputEventType(isolate, input_event);
  if (blink::WebInputEvent::isMouseEventType(type)) {
    blink::WebMouseEvent mouse_event;
    if (mate::ConvertFromV8(isolate, input_event, &mouse_event)) {
      host->ForwardMouseEvent(mouse_event);
      return;
    }
  } else if (blink::WebInputEvent::isKeyboardEventType(type)) {
    content::NativeWebKeyboardEvent keyboard_event;
    if (mate::ConvertFromV8(isolate, input_event, &keyboard_event)) {
      host->ForwardKeyboardEvent(keyboard_event);
      return;
    }
  } else if (type == blink::WebInputEvent::MouseWheel) {
    blink::WebMouseWheelEvent mouse_wheel_event;
    if (mate::ConvertFromV8(isolate, input_event, &mouse_wheel_event)) {
      host->ForwardWheelEvent(mouse_wheel_event);
      return;
    }