[cairo] drawing to desktop

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 17:37 -0400, Travis Griggs wrote:
> I've got bindings in Smalltalk for drawing with Cairo to windows or  
> pixmaps on X/OSX/Win32. I'd like to toy with drawing straight to the  
> desktop. Is this doable? I think I know how to get an HDC for the  
> Screen in Win32. But no clue how to do the equivalent in X or OSX.  
> Anyone done this and have any (pseudo)code to share?

Humm, not my stuff, but how about RootWindow() and RootWindowOfScreen?
Then pass that to cairo_xlib_surface_create() as Drawable.


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> Travis Griggs
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