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[Deron Johnson]

Soeren Sandmann wrote On 01/10/06 08:48,:

> This reminds me that there is another way to solve this: Make sure
> glXPixmaps work. That way the compositing manager can just draw all
> its stuff to a pixmap, then do XCopyArea() to the root with 
> include_inferiors.

This is a very non-performant way to solve the problem. 3D rendering to
GlxPixmaps is not necessarily hardware accelerated on all devices. Plus
you need to pay the price of a full screen copy on each frame. Very
slow.