Thanks a lot.Hey but what do you mean by "if your OpenGL is HW accelerated then the drawing will be too??" . I thought any rendering done by OpenGL is hardware accelerated. Is my assumption wrong?? Thanks and Regards, Guhan. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Alexandros Frantzis <<a href="mailto:alexandros.frantzis@linaro.org">alexandros.frantzis@linaro.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:22:29PM +0530, guhan senthilkumar wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to understand cairo with openGL backend. > Can anyone send me a sample application which uses cairo with openGL > backend? </div>You can check the code in boilerplate/cairo-boilerplate-glx.c or ...-egl.c for an example of how to set up cairo-gl. <div class="im"> > If by simply using the OpenGL backend for cairo , will the images rendered > be hardware accelerated?? </div>If your OpenGL is HW accelerated then the drawing will be too. Thanks, Alexandros </blockquote></div>