text and compositing

[Jon Smirl]

--- Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> > xserver implemented on top of OpenGL doesn't have the identity transform
> > requirement.
> 
> I don't follow this; the idea is to have an identity transformation between
> the X protocol and some place where pixels are stored so that the X
> protocol semantics are honored.  Any non-identitiy transform would have to
> be applied in a texturing operation that was not visible to the X 
> application.

I was thinking about the case where Cairo would be drawing to the X server using
GLX instead of X. Windows being drawn with GLX don't have to follow X protocol rules.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at yahoo.com


	
		
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