> Is anyone aware of this problem or am I misinterpreting the problem. If > this is what's happening, is there an equivalent to XPutImage that requests > that the stretching operation be done in the graphics hardware which is going > to be considerably faster and almost instantaneous I would guess.
No, you're right. And such an API does not exist in 'standard' X AFAIK. Maybe in the Render extension used by Wine do to fonts, but I never really investigated it. Lionel -- Lionel Ulmer - http://www.bbrox.org/