On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Rich Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> At e.g. 17:20 it looks as though the entire remote rendering of the > client is done by X11 somehow, and X11 generates a pixmap of the result and > sends it to the client (XtoQ). Normally of course, the X events are sent > to the remote server (XQuartz) which draws the window widget by widget. Is > that a fair characterization? > Take a look at how compiz works: it registers both the window management and compositing interfaces, the X server renders client windows to offscreen bitmaps and delivers those to the compositor interface, where compiz receives them and renders them to OpenGL textures. This is much the same except that rendering is to OS X native windows; the DDX is the local X server. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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