31 Jan
2003
31 Jan
'03
6:36 a.m.
Steve Harris wrote:
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:31:44 +0100, Robert Jonsson
wrote:
OK, well, more precicely, the ones I looked at (FVWM and Gnome-whatsit IIRC)
used window manager hacks.
Reading up on it somewhat I see no reason for using even OpenGL inside a
swallowed application... They are after all just windows. Maybe my
note about bitmaps was just confusing things. They are as accelerated as
anything else.
Here is an example I found with a quick search, I have no idea how the
code looks.
http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~bigboss/kappdock/index.html
Yes, but
hat is done with a window manger hack, normal X apps can't do
that.
Are you sure this is the case? There are numerous applications that support
swallowing. Some of them are quite small.
Right now I can't think of one though, I'll do some checking. We talked about this some years ago I remember
doing some checking back then,
the ones that I have seen are derived from WindowMakers dockapps.
These apps export small bitmaps as windows, I think the approach is valid for
us to.
Not really, as the bitmap will be ~600 pixels wide and is likely to
contain constantly moving meters, I can image that being quite a load.
Xnest seems like a better option really. It just needs somone who
understands X better than me to look at it.
I'm definately not convinced, running Xnest seems to me like a huge
waste of resources. I mean Xnest is a complete Xserver isn't it?
/Robert