Re: Unsollicited video screen always on top

[Alexis Bunel <albun@altern.org>]

nate wrote:

> Alexis Bunel said:
>> Hy everybody,
>>
>> I have a problem with my server X. The video output always stays on top,
>> whatever program I might use (xine, mplayer, other...). For example, with
>> Xine, I can't view my right-click menu.
> 
> this is normal, the video playback program is writing directly to
> the framebuffer of the videocard. this improves performance probably
> 50-100x. but also acts screwy when stuff is tried to be viewed on
> top of it. turning off the extmod option probably disables DRI which
> then the app cannot write directly to the videocard anymore and
> performance goes through the floor and cpu usage through the roof.
> 
> I've seen this behavior on many platforms over the years, probably
> going back to ...1996/97?
> 
> in my experience this behavior is normal.
> 
> nate
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That's exactly the case. So you think it's normal ? Cause it's quite
annoying...

Thanks anyway,

Alexis Bunel