<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 3, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Hal V. Engel wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-family: 'DejaVu Sans'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; "><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">This has been brought up on the XOrg email list by members of this list many times in the past. It is always quickly and decisively rejected by those who control the direction of XOrg. Until the XOrg movers and shakers are willing to at least consider the idea nothing will happen with this idea.</div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Is this something the desktop environment could implement? Is there a way for the various desktop environments to agree on a handful of APIs to allow for a passthrough (for display and print)?</div><div><br></div><div>Chris Murphy</div></body></html>