Re: kernel level window management

2015-12-30 Thread me
Hi. On 29.12.15 20:09, Dimitri NĂ¼scheler wrote: Hello everyone I sometimes wonder where people talk about concept level and philosophy. At least Wayland has a big philosophy part - and it uses it to explain itself in contrast to X. I'm not much involved into it, but I think I understand some

Re: kernel level window management

2015-12-30 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
I don't quite understand the need, want, or mechanism for this. For high performance or VR systems where context switch overhead would be too much (and I don't believe this, since they tend to use separate acceleration chips for real-time work), the answer would not be to move from userspace to

kernel level window management

2015-12-30 Thread Dimitri NĂ¼scheler
-switches in certain situations where the redirection would basically be something like an "identity function" if you know what I mean. I tried to better explain it here http://repository.violetsky.ch/other/demediation/window-manager-demediation.html and it basically results in a very