Distributed GL; WAS: [GLLUG] X Window Managers

[Cory Spitz]

Huh. I never realized that about 4DWM.  I had a Indy R5K at work until
they replaced with a SunBlade just a few weeks ago.  I have to say, I
miss my Indy, it was cute anyway :)  One of the things I miss the most
is the mailbox.  Don't laugh too hard but the SGI GL mailbox (xbiff)
was sweet.  The sun would rise/set on your mailbox depending upon your
longitude and latitude and the time of the year.  We still have some
SGI servers here but I can't run the mailbox app over X because my sun
doesn't have Distributed OpenGL.  I did some brief googling but wasn't
able to come up with much.  Anyone know if there are any SGI DGL
clones out there?

Thanks,
-Cory

On 13 Dec 2002, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Jo Dillon <jo@groupinfo.com> writes:
>
> >   Only if your source data is actually vector data. Most of OS X's
> > icons, for example, are actually really big bitmaps (256x256, say).
> > Stretchblt will do just as good a job as PostScript at rendering that
> > at any given size, and do it slightly faster too since there's less
> > overhead.
>
> Just as a side comment, it might be worth noting that Irix's 4DWM
> window manager is an example of a system that really does use
> vector graphics for its icons.  You can blow them up arbitrarily
> and they look the same as they do at normal size.  Actually I'm
> kind of fond of the way they handle icons: icon source is stored
> in /usr/lib/icons and you compile them to a usable form with
> `make'.  The implementation really sucks though.
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