From 6cac342517892a20bab6a6177f8b5742feaaed38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Gottwald Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:48:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] document broken composite in XWin --- hw/xwin/README | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file 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 ====================