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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Transparency -- take 2
From:       Geert Jansen <g.t.jansen () stud ! tue ! nl>
Date:       1999-09-29 16:16:39
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Mosfet wrote:
 
> I like this too and considered it (sharing the Pixmap handles across
> applications). The problem: When KDesktop crashes all psudeo-transparent apps
> will crash. You will need to check before each access and do something else if
> the "server" is gone.

What about XSetCloseDownMode() ?
If I understand it correctly (I'm a X newbie) it can be used to retain all
resources after the conncection closes. It doesn't work on individual
resources, though. so it is kind of overkill but then again kdesktop isn't
suppose to crash.

> I actually messed around with doing this for sharing the KThemeBase pixmap
> cache - it would be really cool but not much has come from it yet, mostly
> because of the above issue. Feel free to play around with it if you like, but
> try to make it a generic pixmap sharing mechanism.

Allright.

Greetings,
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    Geert Jansen                       email: <g.t.jansen at stud.tue.nl>
    Phylosopher, Physicist                        PGP key ID: 0xD2B5E7CE

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