Composite and damage status

Egbert Eich eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Tue May 11 02:29:33 PDT 2004


Keith Packard writes:
 > 
 > Around 14 o'clock on May 10, Egbert Eich wrote:
 > 
 > > That's interesting to hear. I would have liked to see things getting
 > > announced on mailing lists. Seems like there is still a lot missing
 > > to call this a community :-(((
 > 
 > Ah, sorry about that -- I guess we'd chatted about this at the developers 
 > conference and then in a few emails without making people more aware of 
 > what was going on.  It's not a huge effort; he's stealing pieces of the 
 > existing backing store code to do the transformation in a DDX-independent 
 > fashion, which should mean Composite for all X servers.

Ah, OK. 
- Does that mean we don't have to 'fix' XAA any more for composite?
- Will we 'automatically' get offscreen fb storage of COMPOSITE
  windows doing this? XAA can do offscreen pixmaps. If a wrapping
  layer makes a lower layer believe that these windows are really
  pixmaps it should work. (I have to admit I've never looked at
  the BS code).

 > 
 > Stuart Kreitman has been working on Damage/XFIXES already; I don't know if 
 > he's committed those to X.Org CVS yet or not.
 > 

I haven't seen anything go in.


	Egbert.



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