Workaround, for now

Alan Hourihane alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk
Fri Jun 14 10:37:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:10:30 -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> I've found a workaround, for now.
> 
> It turns out that the RENDER extension is working find on Cygwin/XFree86,
> but the LAYER and/or RANDR extensions are causing problems when displaying
> icons with alpha channels.  For now the solution is to just disable LAYER
> and RANDR, since we don't even know what they do (lack of documentation from
> the creator).
 
LAYER and RANDR are not complete. They both form the basis for Rotate
and Resizing. This will allow colour depth switching and rotating of
the display. So don't worry about them.

Alan.



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