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LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Posted Apr 16, 2012 15:00 UTC (Mon) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland by dgm
Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

>>> I can alt-click a window to move it in Xfree even if the application is blocking and I happen to click on a portion of the window that the application itself is responsible for drawing. Right?
>>Right: that's server-side decoration.
> No, that's window management.

In current systems server-side decoration imply server side window management, so I'd say you're nitpicking, but yes that's server side window management.

> [cut] a good compositor can interpolate frames and keep the resizing smooth

Not sure this would be so good: the client already took "too long" to answer and then the animation between both frames would add also some delay..


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