In my windowmanager for DFB I create four DFBWindows (for each side of the
window it decorates). I share your opinoin that this is bad...

How else can it be done if we want a window manager that can handle any
DirectFB window? or is this just plain stupid?

Hallvar Helleseth

Quoting Monge Maurizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> I think a key option to have a lightweight window manager are clippers
> (maybe in software).
> If a surface can have blits, draw, etc. without to invade a region, then a
> window (without alpha blend) could be just a subsurface of the primary
> woth the correct clipper, and the clipper could change when the window is
> resized/moved.
> This would be very nice for common desktop apps, preventing a great number
> of drawing threads.
> In facts i ported eboard to gtk2-directfb and i found that (even without
> alpha, on a matrox g400!) graphics were very slow, slower then under X :-(
> 
>                                                  Ciao
>                                                  Maurizio
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