diff --git a/cogl/cogl-framebuffer-private.h b/cogl/cogl-framebuffer-private.h
index 0bfc64e61..3d9cba364 100644
--- a/cogl/cogl-framebuffer-private.h
+++ b/cogl/cogl-framebuffer-private.h
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ _cogl_framebuffer_flush_journal (CoglFramebuffer *framebuffer);
 void
 _cogl_framebuffer_flush_dependency_journals (CoglFramebuffer *framebuffer);
 
+void
+_cogl_framebuffer_swap_notify (CoglFramebuffer *framebuffer);
+
 typedef enum _CoglFramebufferFlushFlags
 {
   /* XXX: When using this, that imples you are going to manually load the
diff --git a/cogl/cogl-framebuffer.c b/cogl/cogl-framebuffer.c
index ede491e37..a0c5b944d 100644
--- a/cogl/cogl-framebuffer.c
+++ b/cogl/cogl-framebuffer.c
@@ -313,6 +313,11 @@ _cogl_framebuffer_clear (CoglFramebuffer *framebuffer,
                              cogl_color_get_alpha_float (color));
 }
 
+void
+_cogl_framebuffer_swap_notify (CoglFramebuffer *framebuffer)
+{
+}
+
 int
 _cogl_framebuffer_get_width (CoglFramebuffer *framebuffer)
 {
diff --git a/cogl/cogl.c b/cogl/cogl.c
index c2cee24ae..b6c3fa535 100644
--- a/cogl/cogl.c
+++ b/cogl/cogl.c
@@ -1097,3 +1097,13 @@ _cogl_error_quark (void)
   return g_quark_from_static_string ("cogl-error-quark");
 }
 
+/* Until Cogl becomes responsible for handling swap-buffer requests
+ * this API is used by Clutter to notify us when it issues a
+ * swap-buffer on our behalf. */
+void
+_cogl_swap_buffers_notify (void)
+{
+  _COGL_GET_CONTEXT (ctx, NO_RETVAL);
+
+  _cogl_framebuffer_swap_notify (_cogl_get_framebuffer ());
+}
diff --git a/cogl/cogl.h b/cogl/cogl.h
index d6170fe16..0e8d1ad08 100644
--- a/cogl/cogl.h
+++ b/cogl/cogl.h
@@ -1293,6 +1293,9 @@ _cogl_driver_error_quark (void);
 void
 _cogl_onscreen_clutter_backend_set_size (int width, int height);
 
+void
+_cogl_swap_buffers_notify (void);
+
 G_END_DECLS
 
 #undef __COGL_H_INSIDE__