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	XRender -2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Since XRender introduced transparency, it was now possible to treat partial pixels along the edges of geometric objects as if they were translucent and thus approximate anti-aliasing.
		XRender also allowed for the incremental rasterization of glyphs, thus eliminating the inefficiencies of rasterizing every glyph in a CJK font, for example.
		When XRender was first developed, there was concern about the increase in network traffic caused by the need for clients to send rasterized glyph images to the server for caching.
	eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu /iuc27/html/img17.html (190 words)

	XCLOCK(1) manual page
		Note that this resource is not used when Xrender is in effect.
		This font is only used when Xrender is not in effect.
		Specify the pattern for the font to be used for the digital clock when Xrender is used.
	www.xfree86.org /current/xclock.1.html (962 words)

	Manpages (1:xclock) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This option specifies the color of the edges of the hands on an analog clock, and is only useful on color displays.
		Note that the color selection options and resources used when Xrender is in effect differ from the standard options.
		Specifies whether or not the Xrender extension should be used for the display.
	xclock.1.manpage.c0d1ng.org (971 words)

	Composite tutorial
		Now that composite has appeared in an X.Org release, a lot of people will be interested in using it, not just from a user point of view for transparency and eye candy, but also from a developers point of view, for accessing the contents of covered windows.
		It might be useful to know that when you draw a pixmap with Xrender, you provide pictures both for the source and the destination drawables, and both the source and destination pictures can have clip regions set.
		We now have all the information we need in order to be able to draw the window using the Xrender extension, and we've created and prepared a source picture for the window for this purpose.
	ktown.kde.org /~fredrik/composite_howto.html (4280 words)

	archive.netbsd.se - NetBSD Sverige
		It appears when old versions of Xrender and Xft2 were deleted they didn't delete their libs from /usr/X11R6/lib (possibly due to a change in where the libs exist) and the new ones were installed in /usr/pkg/lib...
		It appears when old versions of Xrender and Xft2 were > deleted they didn't delete their libs from /usr/X11R6/lib (possibly due to a > change in where the libs exist) and the new ones were installed in > /usr/pkg/lib...
		Both the 'Xrender' and 'Xft2' libraries are in the are in XFree86, or at least XF86_4.
	archive.netbsd.se /?ml=netbsd-tech-pkg&a=2004-01&t=16146 (785 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		So while there are many ways to blend things in X including XRender, OpenGL, and your XSVG library, as well as client-side solutions like libart, none of these do what is needed because they only know what is going on in their own application.
		Keith was going to write the X server extension I talked about based on XRender but nothing has come of it as yet.
		XRender is ideal for this situation because it is light and lowlevel.
	xsvg.org /pipermail/xsvg/2003-March.txt (3860 words)

	[xorg] View of /xc/doc/specs/Render/library
		Introduction The Xrender library is designed as a lightweight library interface to the Render extension.
		Data Types 2.1 Primitive Types For resources represented as CARD32 or XID on the wire, Xrender exposes them using an 'unsigned long' type as is the norm for 32-bit data objects in an Xlib compatible API.
		Xrender also provides glyphs in three sizes, 8 16 and 32 bits.
	cvs.freedesktop.org /xorg/xc/doc/specs/Render/library?rev=1.1.1.1&view=markup (1499 words)

	nV News Forums - hardware accelerated xrender ?
		i would like to know if there is any plan about an hardware accelerated xrender for nvidia cards.
		Indeed, xrender is not software accelerated at all and is quite slow.
		The nvidia drivers contain hw accelerated xrender support but it is disabled by default.
	www.nvnews.net /vbulletin/printthread.php?t=42677 (104 words)

	GTK+ Challenge: Make Pango Faster; Desktop Integration Bounty - OSNews.com
		Xrender is a great idea-but a) it is not particularly well supported by most graphic card drivers-ie.
		b) according to rasterman (of enlightenment fame) xrender is sending signals across the pci/agp bus for each pixel operation which radically reduces any hardware acceleration improvements for which xrender was actually designed..
		I rand renderbench from rasterman on machine yesterday-it compares imlib2 (of enlightenment fame) with xrender-remember xrender is supposed to provide hardware acceleration and imlib2 has no such hardware acceleration-pure software......
	www.osnews.com /comment.php?news_id=7953 (1541 words)

	Well, I'm Back: Xgl
		Xgl implements the Xrender calls using GL so we get the same sort of hardware acceleration we'd get if we used Glitz directly.
		The only downside is that Xrender doesn't support some of the operations we need accelerated --- e.g., gradients, non-affine transformations, and SVG-style filters.
		Posted by: Joey at May 31, 2005 01:14 PM "The only downside is that Xrender doesn't support some of the operations we need accelerated --- e.g., gradients, non-affine transformations, and SVG-style filters.
	weblogs.mozillazine.org /roc/archives/2005/05/xgl.html (869 words)

	Slashdot \| Hardware Based XRender Slower than Software Rendering?
		XRender might not be hardware accelerated for some reason, probably having to do with driver configuration or something.
		XRender is a new extension with only a reference implementation in XFree86.
		Furthermore, you can't just take a client-side renderer and hack in XRender calls and expect it to run fast--code that works efficiently with a client-server window system like X11 needs to be written differently than something that moves around pixels locally.
	developers.slashdot.org /developers/03/08/16/0034235.shtml (6867 words)

	The Next XFree86 Wars: XFT2 vs STSF - OSNews.com
		XRender is supported by OpenWindows as included with Solaris 9 12/02
		The new Xrender feature increases performance for applications, such as the StarOfficeTM software suite, that run on the Solaris operating environment.
		Xrender uses hardware processing for alpha-blending and transparency effects.
	www.osnews.com /comment.php?news_id=3139 (1562 words)

	[Users] Important: package conflict between RHL9 XFree86 update and xrender package from Ximian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Moreover, it looks our packages never needed a > separate xrender package under Red Hat Linux 9, since libXrender.so.1 > (the lib our package provide that is needed by other mono-related > packages) is provided by the Xfree86-libs that shipped with Red Hat > Linux 9.
		It may be that we only shipped an xrender (and > xrender-debuginfo) in order to provide libs with debugging symbols > (which may explain, in part, why we install them into a different prefix > than Red Hat does).
		In truth, I hadn't even noticed that that included a xrender package at the time.
	lists.ximian.com /archives/public/users/2003-November/012391.html (337 words)

	[SM-Users] KDE, anti alias, Qt, Xft[2], FontConfig, FreeType2 HOWTO
		There are 4 separate packages in it: fontconfig Xft {this is Xft-2} Xft1 Xrender which need to be installed separately.
		When I found this HOWTO, I noticed that I had not installed Xft1 (though I don't think this is strictly required), and #2 regarding freetype includes and libs inside of /usr/X11R6/.
		I also tried building Xft1 and Xrender by hand so I could try running the xmkmf command.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/sm-users/2003-January/000007.html (817 words)

	Enlightenment Foundation Libraries Preview Release - OSNews.com
		the day the software fallbacks for xrender stop being 1/30th - 1/50th of the speed of imlib2 is the day i will look seriously at xrender again.
		xrender COULD - if it were to be actually an acceleration mechanims, NOT a deceleration mechanism.
		but i don't see the need for it until xrender is sufficiently fast to warrant the effort.
	www.osnews.com /comment.php?news_id=7888&offset=60&rows=75 (3711 words)

	[Mono-list] Problem with xrender rpm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hello Duncan, I've been running C# and Gtk# with Mono without any problem, so I was thinking that xrender wasn't needed.
		Here's the message I get when I try to > > install xrender: > > You don't need xrender if you have the latest X from RH9.
		The only one I really want to > keep > > is monodoc, but I would guess I can just reinstall it after xrender is > > installed.
	lists.ximian.com /archives/public/mono-list/2004-February/018661.html (163 words)

	PROUT inForm Xrender
		PROUT inForm Xrender is a simple-to-use rendering engine for XML.
		Xrender uses XSL to generate output in multiple formats: print, HTML and RTF.
		Suitable for desktop use, Xrender compliments PROUT AG's Xprint to provide a complete solution for formatting XML in the users' corporate design.
	www.xml.com /pub/p/180 (156 words)

	xrender version 0.9.0 for Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger
		Darwinports File Edit Bookmarks xrender 0.9.0 xrender - bugzilla Help Documentation
		Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for xrender.
		The raw portfile for xrender 0.9.0 is located here:
	xrender.darwinports.com (268 words)

	wine-devel mailing list: Re: xrender patch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Next in thread: Huw D M Davies: "Re: xrender patch"
		Reply: Huw D M Davies: "Re: xrender patch"
		The xrender CVS patch of 4/23 is causing one of my apps to crash: Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x438198ee).
	www.winehq.com /hypermail/wine-devel/2002/05/0036.html (142 words)

	Around the Planet \| FootNotes
		First, the XRender implementation in X.Org is being optimized, as the prior XFree86 one was awfully implemented (as pointed out by enlightenment developer rasterman).
		And you can ignore the XRender issue as much as you want, rasterman already showed how an implementation that rewrites XRender functions using imlib and so boosts performance up to 30x.
		trolltech smarter choose to no use xrender and rewrite some code for their QT also, you don't want to read that, but Evolution 2 is not a "processor hog" (but its use of spamasssassin for me is a processor hog, not the ui and reactivity in general)
	www.gnomedesktop.org /node/2036 (2273 words)

	Antialiased fonts with Xtf/Xrender patch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Here's a patch against 21.1.12 that gives xemacs the ability to take advantage of the XRender extension and use antialiased fonts for display.
		It also doesn't handle non-proportional fonts gracefully (it does the maximum-width bit).
		Screenshot at http://www.intrepid.com/~vladimir/xemacs_aa.png Xrender setup bits are at http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render/ Try "XTF:Lucida Console:24" for a good time ;-) - Vlad
	list-archive.xemacs.org /xemacs-patches/200012/msg00046.html (98 words)

	GTK+ Challenge: Make Pango Faster; Desktop Integration Bounty - OSNews.com
		Xft2 should not be scaling the glyphs it draws, the glyph pixmaps should already be the right size (to preserve quality).
		Internally, Xft looks at the string to be rendered, grabs the necessary glyph pixmaps from it's font cache (rasterizing them to a pixmap with Freetype if necessary), and then calls XRender to alpha-blend the pixmap onto the screen.
		I see your point about rasterbench-the only place where xrender beats imlib2 is in non-scaled overblends-and it is unlikely that pango/vte are doing much in the way of scaling.
	www.osnews.com /comment.php?news_id=7953&limit=no (6777 words)

	Re: fonts, cpu and icons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I could be wrong about the configure -- but this is clearly a lack of xrender support in qt.
		I included xrender, make sure it was enabled (I even have the translucent menus with xrender).
		QT isn't compiling with xrender, so I'll try recompiling it all....
	dot.kde.org /1039281841/1039526181/1039535084 (359 words)

	Article #473: FLTK 2.0.x Weekly Snapshot, r4418 - Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		11 lines X version uses XRender extension to alpha composite and to scale, rotate, or otherwise transform images.
		If compiled without XFT, or if XRender extension is not present, it will fall back to the old X code, which just centers the image in the box it should occupy.
		X does not do it, but perhaps XRender will solve this.
	fltk.easysw.com /articles.php?L473 (237 words)

	► » Xrender extension on AIX ?? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Anyone heard news on a possible appearance of Xrender in AIX 5.3 ??
		it would be nice if IBM would provide a supported Xrender extension
		After all, Sun has provided Xrender in Solaris-9 (12/02 release):
	www.all-unix.org /detail-9163911.html (107 words)

	[Commit] Xrender ChangeLog,1.2,1.3
		This is the stuff that corresponds to Debian's xrender + 0.8.1-1 package.
		+ +2003-04-17 17:43 nlevitt + + * configure.ac: Xrender version is the same as Render.
		+ +2001-07-06 13:46 keithp + + * Xrender.c: Fix a couple of locking bugs in Xrender library + +2001-05-16 03:33 keithp + + * Xrender.c: Clean up memory leaks in Xrender library + +2001-02-13 11:19 dawes + + * Xrender-def.cpp: 135.
	keithp.com /pipermail/commit/2003-May/000133.html (1186 words)

	[SDL] init 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Secondly you have a brand new > XRender extension which is mostly praised for its alpha capabilities, but it > provides also the way to hardware acceleration.
		Is there an implementation of the XRender extension that supports hardware-accelerated alpha?
		I was under the impression that everyone raced to implement the anti-aliasing stuff in XRender, and never did the rest, but I haven't really paid that much attention.
	www.libsdl.org /pipermail/sdl/2002-May/045975.html (130 words)

	LUGOD: Vox Mailing List Archives
		Could I have the xrender library but not the pkg-config file for it?
		Is there an alternative way to point Xft to xrender instead of by pkg-config?
		Xft has a manpage, so I know some part of Xft is already installed.
	www.lugod.org /mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2004-07/msg00091.html (519 words)

	wine-devel mailing list: Re: xrender patch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In reply to: Duane Clark: "Re: xrender patch"
		You can also just build libXrender.so, which is not that hard to pull out of CVS and build by itself.
		Finally, I have attached the king daddy of all kludges that may let you use your Xrender without modification, but use at your own risk...
	www.winehq.org /hypermail/wine-devel/2002/05/0053.html (331 words)

	patch for antialiased text with Xrender/Xft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		So here it is.] Here's a patch against 21.1.12 that gives xemacs the ability to take advantage of the XRender extension and use antialiased fonts for display.
		It also doesn't handle non-proportional fonts gracefully (it does the maximum-width thing).
		Screenshot at http://www.intrepid.com/~vladimir/xemacs_aa.png Xrender setup bits are at http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render/, it's included in xfree86 CVS or the 4.0.1z release.
	list-archive.xemacs.org /xemacs-beta/200012/msg00089.html (259 words)

	Slashdot \| Native Sorenson Playback Comes to Linux
		The relevant piece of the desktop image is picked out and then some mechanism, rather it be software or Xrender accelerated, blends the static desktop image with the image to be overlayed with the weights assigned and generates a new static image based on the results.
		This is an improvement over the background-only translucency of the various terminals, and works for about 97% of the people who like it (as eyecandy), but it doesn't actually let you monitor dynamic content beneath the tranlucent section.
		All this said, between XRender, Xft2, XVideo, DRI, and Xmovie extensions, really good things can be done on the desktop level with X, while keeping the networking core that is so useful so often...
	www.slashdot.org /articles/02/06/20/2350241.shtml?tid=106 (11289 words)

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