Re: cairo x11 surfaces

[Wolfgang Lux]

David Chisnall wrote:

> 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...

I'm using Apple's X11 and it has been working for me (almost) without problems 
for ages now.

Wolfgang