Re: Xrender extension docs anywhere?

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:04:04AM -0700, David Jeske wrote:
> Some stuff I found implied that XRender might do something about this,
> or at least might help. However, all the links I can find to XRender
> are either dead, or lead to pages where all the links are dead. 

Hmm.. I guess keith's site just dosn't have good pagerank on Google, I
found what I was looking for here:

  http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/

Now that I've re-acquainted myself with these papers, let me go back
to my original question.

Is there any way to coax Xfree into using the second hardware cursor
for a drag-icon? 

My understanding is that win32 makes use of the second hardware cursor
for this kind of thing when it is available, and that's a large part
of why it's so smooth to drag icons (even with alpha). It seems like
this would work much better as a completely server-side operation
(i.e. create a window as a drag-cursor) so the cursor wouldn't jitter
due to event propagation or scheduling. Of course the drag-owner would
still have to manage transitions and removing the drag-cursor, however
users are much less sensitive to transitions than they are to jitter
between the hardware cursor and the drag object position.

Is this a solved problem somewhere?

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David Jeske (N9LCA) + http://www.chat.net/~jeske/ + [email protected]