Re: Which X11 backend to use?
Alexandre Bique <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Bernhard R. Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! Hi Bernhard, > I'd like to use libcairo for animated 2d graphics output in an X11 window. I'm > not very familiar with X11 programming yet. > There are 3 different types of X11 surfaces: Xlib, Xlib-Xrender, and XCB. > > Which one should I use? I'd advice to use cairo-xlib. As I understand, it is the most backward compatible backend, if you intend to support pre-cairo-xcb distributions. Also it checks if xrender is present and uses xrender. And this backend is well tested. If xcb is present on your target, you can give a try to xcb. Cheers, -- Alexandre Bique -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo