[5/5] Xephyr: Fix broken image when endianess of client machine and host-Xserver differ

Ian Scott ian.scott at arteris.com
Tue May 5 11:07:54 PDT 2015


On 03/31/2015 12:14 AM, Egbert Eich wrote:
> The image is created in the native byte order of the machine Xephyr is
> rendered on however drawn in the image byte order of the Xephyr server.
> Correct byte order in the xcb_image_t structure and convert to native
> before updating the window.
> If depths of Xephyr and host server differ this is already taken care of
> by the depth conversion routine.
> It is a terrible wase to always convert and transmit the entire image
> no matter of the size of the damaged area. One should probably use
> sub-images here. For now we leave this as an exercise.

I have a patch that implements this with subimages. Should I submit a 
patch based on git master HEAD or based on this patch?

Ian



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