<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Presently, I am using gtk to create a drawable surface for cairo to draw on, but I am wondering whether or not gtk is slowing the drawing down a lot. Therefor, I was wondering whether it is possible to do some drawing with cairo, but not using gtk windows. However, I would preferably have my drawable surface to be full screen (i.e. without borders). I hope this is more informative. Thanks a lot for you swift responses. Dirk John Tapsell wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:43d8ce651001280236m55cb1a24j5f8f74a4e9cf0efa@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">2010/1/28 Dirk De Becker <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Dirk.DeBecker@dzine.be"><Dirk.DeBecker@dzine.be></a>: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I just want to draw some stuff on screen, probably using cairo, but I want this not in a window, but on the full screen. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That gives me zero new information. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>