Amazing Xgl Demo Video

[Luke-Jr]

On Friday 24 February 2006 18:44, Jason Clinton wrote:
> Also, applications never have to 'repaint' their view ports because, as far
> as they are concerned, they are never covered by another window -- they are
> just rendering to an abstract GL surface.

But that doesn't need GL... any X server *could* abstract that from the 
clients...

> Presently, when you drag a window around on your desktop, all the apps
> which were dragged over have to repaint their contents. That's why your
> CPU utilization goes way up.

I never managed to figure out *why* XFree86 and now X.org haven't abstracted 
that...