Re: cairo x11 surfaces

[David Chisnall]

On 15 Oct 2011, at 10:14, Wolfgang Lux wrote:

> Hi Eric,
> 
>> Wolfgang, that's an interesting bug. I couldn't reproduce it with GNUstep 
>> running on Ubuntu 10.10 / x86-64 with cairo 1.10.0, exporting the display to 
>> a PowerPC iBook running OS X 10.4 and X11.app. What are the details of the 
>> setup you tested? My first thought is it might be a cairo bug since cairo 
>> handles all of the details of transferring surfaces to the X server with 
>> this new surface.
> 
> I had tested this with the gnu-gnu-gnu combo built on OS X (Leopard for 
> PowerPC, Snow Leopard for x86) and exporting the display to the other machine.
> 
> I now have updated the Ubuntu 10.04 installation on the PowerBook as well and 
> running applications there with the display exported to an x86 machine works. 
> So maybe the issue is somewhere in the Cairo libs? On the OS X machines I'm 
> using cairo 1.10.2 from MacPorts, whereas on Ubuntu I have 1.8.10 installed.

Are you using Apple's X11, or XQuartz from Mac OS Forge?  Apple's X11 is so 
buggy that it's impressive that you got it working even with mangled colours...

David

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