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| From: | Roy Wright <royw@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] What is XCB? (and do I care?) | ||
| Date: | Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:04:10 | ||
| Message-Id: | 456A7ED4.4020502@cisco.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] What is XCB? (and do I care?) by Willie Wong |
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| 1 | Willie Wong wrote: |
| 2 | > So my question is: should |
| 3 | > I care about this flag (now or the eventual future), and if so, would |
| 4 | > it hurt to enable it now? |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | Here's a few references that might help: |
| 7 | |
| 8 | http://xcb.freedesktop.org/wiki/ |
| 9 | http://xcb.freedesktop.org/wiki/Features |
| 10 | http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/263 |
| 11 | |
| 12 | If I'm understanding this correctly, then if you have libX11-1.1 installed |
| 13 | (I do on ~x86), then client applications can use XCB, which might give |
| 14 | them a performance boost or just prepare them for the day that XCB |
| 15 | replaces Xlib in the server. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | |
| 18 | HTH, |
| 19 | Roy |
| 20 | |
| 21 | |
| 22 | |
| 23 | -- |
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