[E-devel] Xwnc

[till varoquaux]

Yesterday I tried a wm test kind of thinggy (it is more of a proof of 
concept than actually a reall window manager) called metisse. It is sort 
of a very ugly lookingglass. Anyways they used a very interresting 
concept: They have a second xserver that doesn't actually connect to any 
screen. The programs are launched in the remote Xserver (called Xwnc) 
and they don't overlapp each other in this server or whatever. I must 
admit I haven't dug to much in the innner parts of this. However you can 
get the "image" corresponding to the display of all the programs (on the 
server you are usng as display). This allows the conceptors to render 
them in a 3d plane use transparency and whatever else you can think of 
(basically any images manipulations one can do). I thought it was a 
pretty hack. however I do realise this might be very heavy and/or not 
work properly with hardware integration.
What do you guys think about this. Can this be of any help for the 
enlightenment project?
Till

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