[PATCH] Reorder visuals reported by the intel driver

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Wed Jul 30 11:33:39 PDT 2008


On Sunday, June 15, 2008 5:27 am Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> The root window visual can not be changed. Neither at runtime nor
> through the configuration file. The xserver simply selects the first one
> that matches the class (usually TrueColor). I need a root window visual
> with stencil buffer because my compiz plugin uses the it for some
> operations. This patch reorders the visuals that the 3D driver reports
> and puts the one with stencil (and depth) bits as first.

So until we have private back buffers etc. we'll need to make sure the root 
window's visual is as featureful as possible because the X server just picks 
the first visual matching the current bit depth at startup (sorry I'm a GLX 
novice here)?

Thanks,
Jesse



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