Validating damage data visually in FC11 !

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 11:17 -0700, Siva wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a new user of Xorg!
> 
> I am working on a proof-of-concept software in X and My setup is:
> Intel 965GM, FC11, Intel video driver 2.7.0, Kernel 2.6.30.
> I have already made changes on DDX to get the damage data for the root window
> from damage extension.
> 
> I want to validate the damage data by displaying a black
> rectangle about the size of damaged area on the screen and slowly fade
> it over time. This is an intermediate step which will be very useful
> in the later stages of my development.
> 
> I am hoping to get some direction from the list on
> a. if this is possible at all,
> b. if possible, what are the modules of interest in Server/extensions
> that I will have to browse through.
> 
> My preliminary analysis points me towards Composite extension. But I
> am getting the damage data in DDX and I am not sure if I could send the
> damage data from DDX to Composite extension.
> 
> I regret for the open ended question and any information or pointers
> will be helpful.

I think it's much easier (and more sensible) to do this in a compositing
manager rather than in the server. In fact, kwin4 already has a plugin
which does this.


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