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| author | Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> | 2004-08-16 15:48:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> | 2004-08-16 15:48:53 +0000 |
| commit | 6cac342517892a20bab6a6177f8b5742feaaed38 (patch) | |
| tree | 60077c1d44eae716f1b2be760d10e0049253ee22 | |
| parent | 9aa6beb6b7e6272b05a03e0a4fd34eb8ad21bf47 (diff) | |
| download | xserver-6cac342517892a20bab6a6177f8b5742feaaed38.tar.gz | |
document broken composite in XWin
| -rw-r--r-- | hw/xwin/README | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/hw/xwin/README b/hw/xwin/README index edb18c242..219fd1337 100644 --- a/hw/xwin/README +++ b/hw/xwin/README @@ -99,8 +99,15 @@ retired or cut their work for the Cygwin/X project due to conflicts with job, study and family. The X11R6.8 release now includes major improvements from the xserver project. -This includes the XFixes, the Damage and XEVIE extension which is a major -step towards allowing Cygwin/X to have real transparency. +This includes the XFixes, Damage, Composite and XEVIE extension which is a +major step towards allowing Cygwin/X to have real transparency. + +But at the current state Composite is not working with Cygwin/X. Not all code +in the Cygwin/X Server has been updated to support the Composite feature and +using it will even crash the xserver. But as a second problem nearly all +functions required for compositing are lacking acceleration in Cygwin/X so +the feature would not be very useful if it would work. So it is disabled by +default. OpenGL with Cygwin/X ==================== |