Compiz vs. OpenGL using programs

dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 26 19:34:34 UTC 2007


Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Before I start filing bugs: is it expected that using compiz while 
>> running
>> applications that use OpenGL themselves results in funny display 
>> programs?
>>
>> Or is this supposed to work and not doing so is a driver bug?
>
> This is a known bug, but it requires significant changes in the 
> underlying rendering stack to fix it. It's not a per driver thing, 
> direct rendering stack currently doesn't work with composite.  I think 
> compiz will unredirect fullscreen OpenGL windows, so fullscreen games 
> and the like should work.
>
the problem is that input seems broken:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9474
> Things are slowly starting to fall into place to allow us to fix this 
> problem, but for now, the fix is to either go back to a non-composited 
> desktop, or live with the rendering artifatcs.
>
> cheers,
> Kristian
>




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