Composite Extension Information

[Erik Harrison]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:24:52 +0000, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hatem H wrote:
> 
> > I'm interested in trying to add native composite support to fvwm. I've
> > had no experience working with things on an X Server level, so this is
> > probably a huge leep from the coding I've been doing previously. I
> > decided to try and look for an API or some developer-oriented docs for
> > the composite extension and see if I could make any sense out of it,
> > but I found nothing. My wild guess would be that this is because the
> > composite extension is still a work in progress. If this is the case,
> > can anyone give me any pointers on how I should get started? Should I
> > just read the source? Is there some documentation out there that I've
> > missed?
> 
> AFAIK, the only documentation is:
> 
> http://x2.cs.pdx.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/CompositeExt/protocol?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=xlibs&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> 
> and the Xcomposite.h header.
> 

It seems several window managers (xfwm4 for example) have used the
xcompmgr implementation as a guide.

-Erik

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-Erik