[Xcb] dbe.xml

Eamon Walsh ewalsh at tycho.nsa.gov
Tue Jun 17 11:29:00 PDT 2008


Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> Some time back, i volunteered to write a protocol spec for
> the DOUBLE-BUFFER extension.  Please find a draft attached.
> Feedback welcome!
>   

Well, I'm trying to get this (and mbuf) removed from the Xorg server.  
The consensus at this point is that double-buffering is best achieved 
using a backing pixmap.  Putting this in XCB might cause people to 
assume that it is still supported.  There are some notes here: 
http://xcb.freedesktop.org/XcbNotes/



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