Q: Xserver / Composite behavior

Amir Bukhari ufz6 at rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
Sat Jan 7 18:40:07 PST 2006


> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 01:46 +0100, Amir Bukhari wrote:
> > What happend when application move it's top level window 
> out side root 
> > window. Example: screen is 1200x1024 and a window is moved 
> to 1600,512 
> > which out side screen. Does Xserver will not alow it or it 
> will only 
> > not be visable?
> > does Xcomposite will stil render to off-screen pixmap?
> 
> The entire contents of the redirected window are always 
> available, independent of position or stacking.
> 
That is good and may simplfy a multiscreen enviroments without Xinerama  (in
my case in LG), as some openGl drivers doesn't support rendering to
multiscreen when Xinerama enabled! 

-Amir




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