[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#16431) [PATCH] cairo conversion of gtk2 client

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasco.costa@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=16431 >

On 4/26/06, Christian Prochaska <cp.ml.freeciv.dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=16431 >
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> > [guest - Di 25. Apr 2006, 17:43:56]:
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> > Ok, then we'll try with a runtime check for offscreen pixmaps.
> >
> > After verifying the results of drawing to an offscreen pixmap, it falls
> > to use pixman as the backend.
> >
>
> The runtime check passed (result was 47 as expected), so still the GDK
> backend was being used. How about a configure switch to disable the
> server side rendering?

Hello folks,

If this is a Cairo bug, a simple test case should be made and sent to them.
I mean, there should be some way to check if offscreen pixmaps can be
used or not.
We are probably not the only ones with this problem.

All the best,

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa