Yes, composite is a new extention to X, much like Render (which does onscreen rendering of antialiased fonts). It was created by X.org for the X11R6.8 release. It's slightly slow on most machines right now, except a few fast radeons. It can be used for things like real shadows from windows (that get dropped on the window below, not just the desktop, and are correctly updated), true menu transparency (so you can have, say, a DVD player with transparent menus, the movie plays in real time under the open menu), and things like expose. Check out my previous post for more info on that one. Currently it's way slower than evas, and so the e17 developers are somewhat aloof about it. Eventually, they'll have to succumb as well.
KDE, xfce, and e16 already have support for it. If you want it, install the latest X.org server. If you don't use one of the above environments, also install xcompmgr and transset. Google them for more info. Yours, Dmitry Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: >Dmitry Rashkeev said: > > > >>Now, if we wait long enough for the composite extention to get >>wide >>acceptance/driver support/not corrupt the root window, then e, >>as well >>as any other app that uses X, should have access to the >>offscreen >>buffer. Which would actually let us do this sort of thing >>properly. >>Personally, I'm waiting for a composite-enabled pager. >> >> >> > >Could you give me some more insight about the composite >extension? Is that a X thingy? > > > > >>--Dmitry >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- >>SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration >>Strategies >>from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward >>articles, >>informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get >>up to >>speed, fast. >>http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click >>_______________________________________________ >>enlightenment-users mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
