DRI2 Protocol Spec Draft

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue Sep 9 09:55:38 PDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 18:41 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 08:46 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 13:27 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > I do wonder if DRI2GetBuffers should return the drawable position
> > > relative to the origin of each buffer... guess it isn't strictly
> > > necessary except maybe for the real frontbuffer.
> > 
> > One of the requirements in DRI2 is that the 'real' front buffer be
> > invisible to applications; there's no way the application can sensibly
> > use those contents. Moreover, the drawable position may change without
> > any warning due to window configuration.
> 
> GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap needs the real front buffer.

It does?  Texturing from a raw window isn't legal.  And if you texture
from a pixmap named with NameWindowPixmap, you get the offscreen
storage, not the composited result in the root window's pixmap.  (In
particular, NameWindowPixmap doesn't work on non-redirected windows.)

- ajax
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