document broken composite in XWin

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Alexander Gottwald 2004-08-16 15:48:53 +00:00
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@ -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
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