[cairo] XDBE

[Jim Gettys]

The fedora folks have been experimenting with this using the Sync
extension.

Basically, you can create a simple convention that tells the window
manager when the application is at a good state to display the window.

This, in concert with composite, eliminates all distracting intermediate
drawing from being visible to the user.
			Regards,
				- Jim


On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:05 -0800, Bill Spitzak wrote:

> I would like to see a better workaround, something I would call 
> "synchronous window management". What would happen is a program would 
> tell the WM that it understands this WM protocol. Then if the window 
> manager wants to resize, move, raise, lower, iconize, etc any window, it 
> does not actually do it, but instead it sends the program a message. The 
> program can then do whatever it wants, though it probably should do the 
> requested action. This idea would also get rid of a major reason X looks 
> "slow", and would allow arbitraryily complex rules about what possible 
> sizes and window stacking a program implements.