#40 Hardware Accelerated OpenGL

[Brendan Langoulant]

Hardware accelerated OpenGL is critically required for use of X
based Visualisation software.

Sadly, I have a client that is about to switch to the dark side
because their primary application (IDL from RSInc) runs like a...
snail.

[Torrey T. Lyons]

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Hardware accelerated OpenGL works in the top of the tree in rootless mode. This results in a very significant performance improvement.

[Tony Arnold]

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I'm wondering when we will have accelerated full screen (rooted) X on
Darwin. Apple's X11 does it - can't we just rip the code from there?

[Torrey T. Lyons]

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Apple's X11 does fullscreen mode differently. It basically is just rootless
mode with a big window that covers the other Aqua windows. Things like
xmag don't work right, but it has the big benefit that it can use all the
rootless acceleration code. In any case, I am planning to add this as
another fullscreen option soon. It just didn't make it in time for
XFree86 4.4.0.