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sanmartin
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 Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject: libxcb (replaces Xlib), now in portage! |
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| Quote: | | The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility. |
Has anyone tried installing it? Anyone know if other packages need to be removed first? Anyone know *anything* about it at all? I only know the stuff I've read on their website but I'm interested in trying it out. I'll do that tonight probably but I was just hoping to see if anyone else had tried it out first.
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widremann
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I tried it once about a week ago and the results were not good. Basically, I couldn't type anything at all. So it was unusable and I reinstalled plain old xlib. |
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Gergan Penkov
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using it right now and don't have any problems - also in the moment running gnome/beryl and xlib/mesa compiled with the xcb use flag.
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widremann
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| Gergan Penkov wrote: | | I'm using it right now and don't have any problems - also in the moment running gnome/beryl and xlib/mesa compiled with the xcb use flag. |
Do you notice any improvement in performance? |
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Phenax
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| Hmm, as do the new hardmasked nVidia drivers, it makes X.org not work with my 1440x900 resolution. "Resolution not supported" junk. |
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Gergan Penkov
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| widremann wrote: | | Gergan Penkov wrote: | | I'm using it right now and don't have any problems - also in the moment running gnome/beryl and xlib/mesa compiled with the xcb use flag. |
Do you notice any improvement in performance? |
Well I could not say for sure, I think there is an improvement, but could very well be subjective...
I looked around and seems that for example cairo could be built with xcb-backend - this is the next thing to try, at least I don't have serious problems for now:)
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