Q: Xserver / Composite behavior

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:34:05 +1100 Russell Shaw <rjshaw at netspace.net.au>
babbled:

> Keith Packard wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 01:46 +0100, Amir Bukhari wrote:
> > 
> >>What happend when application move it's top level window out side root
> >>window. Example: screen is 1200x1024 and a window is moved to 1600,512 which
> >>out side screen. Does Xserver will not alow it or it will only not be
> >>visable?
> >>does Xcomposite will stil render to off-screen pixmap?
> > 
> > The entire contents of the redirected window are always available,
> > independent of position or stacking.
> 
> Isn't that a bit inefficient? If you had a 1000x1000 window scrolled
> outside the root, it'd be wasting 4MB in a useless pixmap. No wonder
> X is so slow;)

then dont use compositing! :) seriously - the contents are NEEDED! without them
you cannto do loive pager/icon thumbnails - things like "expose" in osx are not
possible etc. etc. etc.

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