Re: [patch] compiling GTK+ w/o X

[Alexander Larsson <alla lysator liu se>]

On 18 Mar 2001, Sven Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
>
> > > That does not make sense to me. IMHO we should add something
> > > like gdk_window_get_default_root() as Owen suggested. I'm willing
> > > to send a patch if we can agree on this subject.
> > >
> >
> > That's fine with me if the root window concept makes sense and works
> > roughly the same on all the platforms.
>
> I can not decide this on my own, since I can't test it on the windows
> platform and I have no linuxfb version up and running at the moment.
> Could the developers of the gdk backends please comment on this.
>
> Does your implementation have a root window that can be treated
> as a drawable? Does calling gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable() on it
> as done in demos/testpixbuf-drawable() give a reasonable result?
> Is it possible to draw onto the root window using gdk_draw methods?

It's ok for the linux-fb backend.

/ Alex