What about glxCopyContext

[Michel Danzer]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:17 -0400, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > >We need a mechanism for sharing texture data between different 
> > >*processes*. As the implications and exact requirements for that
> are not 
> > >completely clear so far, we decided to delay this until Xgl matured
> a 
> > >bit. Then we'll come up with a proposal for another extension. 
> >  
> > I guess I'm not fully aware of the issues yet.  In terms of  
> > *processes* there's: 
> >  
> > 1. The EGL layer/driver + XGL server + compositor 
> > 2. The OpenGL/Xlib application(s) 
> >  
> > Right?  Or is the compositor in a different process?
> 
> Yes it is. It typically would be the window manager, though it can be
> a 
> different process (and actually usually is at the moment, because
> AFAIK 
> no window manager with embedded compositing has been released yet).

xfwm 4.2 and kwin 3.4 have compositing managers built in optionally.
Last I heard there were plans to integrate Luminocity into Metacity as
well.


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