[Xcb] double-buffer.xml?

Barton C Massey bart at cs.pdx.edu
Tue Dec 18 09:37:42 PST 2007


In message <871w9l4p8h.fsf at ambire.localdomain> you wrote:
> so, what is the recommended way at the protocol-level (assuming
> no C libraries involvement) of doing double buffering, currently?

Make an extra pixmap, and switch to it when you want to.
Utterly portable, and plenty fast on any reasonable modern
machine.

At some point, IIRC, the composite stuff may include an
extension for double-buffered compositing.

    Bart


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