I don’t see this every day ;)
I happened to run into Aaron Plattner on IRC due to this. A bit later - in a thread at NVnews - I learnt that he seems to be a developer or engineer at Nvidia. He also hacked up a nice demo of using ARGB-visuals with GLX (source and binary). After adding a small patch to this in order to make it decoration-less, I had to run all ARGB-GLX examples I currently have on my hd at once… also seeing how much it stresses my box (gvidcap also running in the background to capture it all… my poor little box). While checking it out I wanted to “snapshot this brief moment on tape”. See for yourself right here…
That clip is only running at 10 frames per second. In real life this runs perfectly smooth.
April 10th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Cool! How long b4 there’s a real "desktop" FP shooter?
April 10th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Now we just need to write a cool 3d app to show CPU or memory usage…
April 11th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
@ Renaissanz: I don’t think this is the right area of application for this
@ Anitox: That should be pretty simple. You could achieve this easily yourself. Just take the sourcecode-example and read the proc-filesystem for getting the infos you want to display, generate some GL-objects (e.g. bars, boxes, whatever) from that. Update all this in draw_gl(). You could adjust the time in the used usleep() call to adjust the "niceness" of your floating system-health gauge. I always wonder why the gDesklets maintainers don’t pick up all those nice new possibilities of Linux desktop-graphics.
September 16th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
When I run this app, i got a window whose background was black (not transparent) and following was thrown at the shell
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Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
Warning: Couldn’t find a visual with a picture format that has alpha
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I’ve SUSE 10.1; XOrg 6.9 with nvidia official driver and composite enabled. What am I missing?