On 16:07 Thu 04 Jun , pancake wrote: > isn't meta-0 the exposee you are looking for? didnt check your patch but > I prefer not to depend on composite or gl extensions that never work fine
Thanks, but meta-0 is not what I am looking for; when I have a cluttered X session: 1) I can't actually see much of the individual windows 2) Any floating windows (gimp etc.) occlude the windows underneath 3) Selecting and jumping to one of the windows is a pain Neither XComposite or XRender are OpenGL extensions. XRender provides server side Porter-Duff compositing of images, and has been in X since 2000 (XFree86 4.0.1), and should certainly be used whenever possible - it provides the opportunity for massive accelerations (especially in terms of client<->server communication). Admittedly the rendering accelerations may not always be implemented - the nvidia binary driver is the main offender in this - but it still all happens on the server. XComposite I can see the objection to. It does seem to cause Xv to lose VSync, whether this is a problem with the nvidia driver or another issue I am currently unsure. In the long run all rendering of the windowing system should be done on the GPU, and XComposite/XRender are making the first steps. Whether we will all still be using the monstrosity of X by then is another question... Tom -- Thomas Spurden
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