Re: [Xorg] Damage/Composite + direct rendering clients

Soeren Sandmann <sandmann-SSQ8kajmRZpknbxzx/[email protected]> 18 May 2004 14:47:21 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver,gmane.comp.video.dri.devel,gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Keith Packard <[email protected]> writes:

> As long as the compositing manager holds the server grabbed (which
> presumably locks out direct clients as well) while it updates the screen,
> there shouldn't be any tearing.  No need to drain the event queue or=20
> anything else so dramatic.

What if another client has already grabbed the server for whatever
reason? Is screen updating then turned off?


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