On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:02:45PM +0000, Saku Sammakko wrote:
> Hi
>
> A humble suggestion for pager:
>
> I use pager when working with pictures as one large virtual desktop, that I
> scroll around. As I use very large windows, it is useless to only have
> window names in the pager window. It would be a nice feature to have,
> besides window name, a rough bitmap of window content in the small pager
> window windows.
I'm afrai, but that feature cannot be written in X in a fashion
that would be actually usable. When a window is not currently
visible, its contents may not be anywhere in memory, so the pager
cannot find out what to draw in the mini window. And even if the
window is on screen, this would need ridiculous amounts of memory
and take so long to update that nobody would use it. I'm sorry to
say this, but X simply doesn't provide an interface for background
drawing.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Fri Aug 16 2002 - 20:38:28 BST