On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:50:01 +0200, Mick wrote about [gentoo-user] Cairo XCB:
>I have seen messages similar to these: > > * Messages for package x11-libs/cairo-1.8.10: > > * You have enabled the Cairo XCB backend which is used only by > * a select few apps. The Cairo XCB backend is presently > * un-maintained and needs a lot of work to get it caught up > * to the Xrender and Xlib backends, which are the backends used > * by most applications. See: > * http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2008-December/004139.html [snip] >which means that it's the default. What should I do with it, wait >until the default profile gets rid of it, or do something different? My take is that the warning is against writing new applications that might use the XCB back-end. Unless you are writing expressly X Window (i.e. low level) applications, just ignore it. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====================================================================== dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) ======================================================================
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