Finishing Composite to handle transformed windows

[Adam Jackson]

On Friday 06 January 2006 18:04, Deron Johnson wrote:
> The reason why I decided to use a different window for LG 3D rendering
> instead of the root window is because my scene graph library (Java3D)
> doesn't allow you to render to existing windows, and also I have
> encountered some versions of OpenGL direct rendering in the past
> which don't work on the root window (Sun's implementation of
> OpenGL did this, for example). It's just cleaner and safer to use
> a separate window.

The other usual problem with doing GL to the root window is that the root is 
typically created on a single-buffered visual, so GL to it looks extremely 
flickery.

This is fixable if we really want to.

- ajax
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