Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: >> But why did he remove the forced disabling of the composite extension? > > Well, that piqued my curiosity, so I tried the same and built 1.5.2 with > the composite extension, rebuilt metacity-2.22 with compositing support, > then built and installed avant-window-navigator. It basically works, > but with a number of caveats: > > 1) Compositing does not work in multiwindow mode, but the extension > still shows as available. Sounds obvious, but since window > transparency, etc. is possible on Win2K+, perhaps someday this could be > figured out. > > 2) The root window turns a silver color, even in rootless mode, and > cannot be changed through xsetroot. > > 3) The content of OpenGL windows (e.g. glxgears) is completely > transparent. This reminds me of what used to happen with the old > experimental XWin_GL server, except then they were all black. > > Still, it's interesting and shouldn't impede normal usage, so I think > I'll include it in 1.5.2 as an experiment.
Interesting. How is the speed? Perhaps patch like this so it's off by default, enabled with "+extension Composite" ? --- xserver-orig/os/utils.c 2008-10-10 19:12:49.000000000 +0100 +++ xserver/os/utils.c 2008-10-29 11:16:23.875000000 +0000 @@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ _X_EXPORT Bool noBigReqExtension = FALSE; #endif #ifdef COMPOSITE -_X_EXPORT Bool noCompositeExtension = FALSE; +_X_EXPORT Bool noCompositeExtension = TRUE; #endif #ifdef DAMAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
