Re: GLX in Xephyr --or-- is there some other way to catch a desktop in a texture?

2008-12-09 Thread Ashi Krishnan
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Glynn Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ashi Krishnan wrote: But I want to manage all the windows of that application and *only* the windows of that application. And, as far as I'm aware, there's no reliable way of figuring out the pid of the process that owns

GLX in Xephyr --or-- is there some other way to catch a desktop in a texture?

2008-12-08 Thread Ashi Krishnan
I was poking around the 7.4 release notes, and saw, hey, GLX passthrough for Xephyr! Great! I gave the version installed with Ubuntu (Intrepid) a whirl, and while OpenGL applications work*, they aren't accelerated (indirectly or no) which is what I would expect passthrough to mean. So,

Re: GLX in Xephyr --or-- is there some other way to catch a desktop in a texture?

2008-12-08 Thread Peter Harris
Ashi Krishnan wrote: What I'm trying to do: I want to capture all the windows of some arbitrary X application as GL textures, then render them in some way, without any of this output showing up on screen (except where I finally render things, obviously). Sounds like Project Looking Glass or

Re: GLX in Xephyr --or-- is there some other way to catch a desktop in a texture?

2008-12-08 Thread Ashi Krishnan
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Peter Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ashi Krishnan wrote: This is fine if (1) the app creates only one window, and (2) is quite cooperative with respect to where it draws that window -- like, say, the xscreensaver hacks. Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not seeing

Re: GLX in Xephyr --or-- is there some other way to catch a desktop in a texture?

2008-12-08 Thread Peter Harris
Ashi Krishnan wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Peter Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ashi Krishnan wrote: This is fine if (1) the app creates only one window, and (2) is quite cooperative with respect to where it draws that window -- like, say, the xscreensaver hacks. Maybe I'm

Re: GLX in Xephyr --or-- is there some other way to catch a desktop in a texture?

2008-12-08 Thread Glynn Clements
Ashi Krishnan wrote: This is fine if (1) the app creates only one window, and (2) is quite cooperative with respect to where it draws that window -- like, say, the xscreensaver hacks. Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not seeing how that's a problem. Since you're acting as the window