Re: FVWM: Blue PNGs

From: Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 08:48:57 +0100

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:08:27PM -0800, Dorothy Robinson wrote:
> I'm attaching the configure log. It did check for bigendian byte ordering
> after looking for png, or at least it says it did. And yes, we have no
> Xrender. (Is it for XFree86 only? Anyway I think rendering would cause an
> unacceptable performance hit on my poor little 330 MHz ultrasparc.)
>

I think that the latest Solaris X has Xrender. Moreover, I do not
think XRender causes performance pbs. When you have to render a png
with an alpha channel you have to know the "image" on which the png
will be applied. Without Xrender under certain condition this leads to
a XGetImage and a XPutImage and this can cause performance pbs. With
Xrender this is done internally in the server (no communication with
the server). So XRender speedup things even with an X driver without
special accel for it.

The following may help me:

- can you send me the output of xdpyinfo.

- do you have pbs with the icons/mini-icons provided by GNOME2
applications or/and when you load a png for using it in fvwm (e.g.,
MenuStyle * MenuFace a_png_image)?

Thanks, Olivier
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Received on Sun Dec 01 2002 - 02:13:15 GMT

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