Re: About Compositing

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann redhat com>]

Bill Haneman wrote:

>
> No, the magnifier needs to do the actual compositing, in order to
> control the way the windows are displayed onscreen.

Why does the magnifier need to control the way windows are displayed
onscreen?

> I didn't think a random client could access the uncomposited pixmap
> contents of the window tree. Anyhow, for performance reasons we
> wouldn't want to, it should be the compositing manager itself.

What performance reasons, and why don't they apply to the compositing
manager itself?


Soren