On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 05:47:23PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado [i...@juanfra.info] wrote: > > > > > > Why Firefox needs a ZPixmap of the image displayed, that is, the entire > > > fully uncompressed image copied back to userland in 4k (or 64k) chunks, > > > that's totally beyond me, by itself. Why the X server does it in such > > > a poor way, beyond me. It's crazyland!!! > > > > The new gtk3 flavor doesn't use the internal version of cairo. > > > > So firefox under -current should use some better technique of needlessly > sharing the image with userland, like XShmGetImage? :) > > Is there any chance that Thunderbird will use gtk3 and external cairo at > some point?
Apparently, firefox with gtk3 and system cairo has problems on OpenBSD but works fine for me. IIRC, the next ESR version of thunderbird will come out with gtk3 support. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
