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Programming X Overlay Windows

Mark J. Kilgardgif
Silicon Graphics Inc.

Abstract:

Overlay planes provide an alternate set of frame buffer bitplanes which can be preferentially displayed instead of the normal set of bitplanes. Overlay planes have been common in high-end graphics systems for some time. Recently, work has been done by Silicon Graphics to integrate overlay plane support into the X Window System. A standard convention proposed and implemented by Silicon Graphics allows X client writers to create windows in the overlay planes. This article describes how to write programs to utilize overlay planes.





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Mark Kilgard
Sun Jan 7 19:28:30 PST 1996