[Bf-committers] KDE & X11 composites

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

In a discussion on a tracker bug, I learned that X11 (and KDE?) are  
switching to different buffering methods, potentially conflicting what  
OpenGL and/or Blender supports right now.

http://projects.blender.org/tracker/? 
func=detail&atid=125&aid=1825&group_id=9

http://ktown.kde.org/~fredrik/composite_howto.html

AFAIK, rendering windows to "pixmaps" is just supported by OpenGL (OSX  
uses it), but not something that works well among the different 3d  
cards and drivers on PCs. It would be very good though if someone could  
investigate it further... most likely this is just something we can  
adjust and solve on GHost level.

Anyone feels challenged?

-Ton-

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