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diff --git a/hw/xwin/README b/hw/xwin/README deleted file mode 100644 index 219fd1337..000000000 --- a/hw/xwin/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,141 +0,0 @@ -Cygwin/X Release Notes -====================== - -Release X11R6.7 -=============== - -Cygwin/X has continued its rapid pace of development that it has sustained -since Spring 2001 and this release shows it, we now have: a stable and fast -multi-window mode, seamless clipboard integration, a configurable tray menu -icon, popups on error messages pointing users to the log file and our mailing -list, the beginnings of indirect 3D acceleration for OpenGL applications, -improved non-US keyboard and clipboard support, and only a handful of bugs -that continue to be reported. - -Between the XFree86 4.3.0 release and the X.Org X11R6.7 release the Cyg- -win/XFree86 project broke away from The XFree86 Project, Inc. due to a lack -of support from the XFree86 project. As such, the Cygwin/XFree86 project was -renamed to the Cygwin/X project and the upstream source code tree that Cyg- -win/X pulls from and pushes to is now the tree managed by the X.Org Founda- -tion. The Cygwin/X project has seen a rush of development and interest in -the project since the split; one metric showing this is that the number of -CVS committers we have has gone from zero to six. - -The most outstanding features of this release are - - o Major multi-window mode improvements. (Takuma Murakami, Earle F. - Philhower III) - - o Initial work of accelerated OpenGL using the windows OpenGL drivers. - (Alexander Gottwald) - - o Massive rework of clipboard integration with windows. (Harold L Hunt II, - Kensuke Matsuzaki) - - o Improved Japanese clipboard and keyboard support. (Kensuke Matsuzaki, - Takuma Murakami, Alexander Gottwald) - - o Customizable tray menu icon allowing shortcuts to start programs, - etc.(Earle F. Philhower III) - - o New icons. (Jehan Bing, Michael Bax, Benjamin Rienfenstahl) - - o Fix some multi-monitor problems.(Takuma Murakami) - - o Fix repeated key strokes. (Ivan Pascal) - - o Automatic keyboard layouts for the most frequently used keyboard lay- - outs. (Alexander Gottwald) - - o Built in SHM support with detection of the SHM engine (cygserver). - (Ralf Habacker, Harold L Hunt II) - - o Merged in work on the NativeGDI engine. (Alan Hourihane) - -OpenGL with Cygwin/X -==================== - -Cygwin/X has supported GLX only with software rendering provided by the Mesa -library. Starting with X11R6.7 we add support for hardware accelerated OpenGL. - -This support is still under development and still has some bigger problems. -To provide both versions (the stable software rendering and the new hardware -accelerated) we ship to binaries. XWin.exe contains the software rendering -and XWin_GL.exe uses the hardware acceleration provided by the windows drivers. - -The known problems with hardware accelerated OpenGL are: - - o Only multiwindow mode is useful. In the other modes the OpenGL output - does not align with the X11 windows. - - o Using two programs which require different visuals will fail. For example - glxgears and glxinfo will not work without restarting XWin_GL.exe. - - o OpenGL extensions and functions from OpenGL 1.2 and later should work - but are not completely tested. - - o The standard Windows OpenGL driver will produce no output. Use the one - from your video adapter vendor. - -If you notice problems with some programs please send a message with the -logfile /tmp/XWin.log and a short error description to <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> - -The hardware accelerated OpenGL was tested using: - - o glxgears - o glxinfo - o blender - o tuxkart - o GLUT demos (some did fail) - o tuxracer (currently not working) - - -Release X11R6.8 -=============== - -Having reached a quite mature state in release X11R6.7 the development -has slowed down a little bit. Some of the former active developers have -retired or cut their work for the Cygwin/X project due to conflicts with -job, study and family. - -The X11R6.8 release now includes major improvements from the xserver project. -This includes the XFixes, Damage, Composite and XEVIE extension which is a -major step towards allowing Cygwin/X to have real transparency. - -But at the current state Composite is not working with Cygwin/X. Not all code -in the Cygwin/X Server has been updated to support the Composite feature and -using it will even crash the xserver. But as a second problem nearly all -functions required for compositing are lacking acceleration in Cygwin/X so -the feature would not be very useful if it would work. So it is disabled by -default. - -OpenGL with Cygwin/X -==================== - -The OpenGL support has lost some of it's limitations from the last release -and should be much more stable. But due to missing wide spread testing in -the community it is still available in a separate program. XWin still uses -the old software OpenGL which is known to be stable. - -The known problems with hardware accelerated OpenGL are: - - o Only multiwindow mode is useful. In the other modes the OpenGL output - does not align with the X11 windows. - - o OpenGL extensions and functions from OpenGL 1.2 and later should work - but are not completely tested. - - o The standard Windows OpenGL driver will produce no output. Use the one - from your video adapter vendor. - -If you notice problems with some programs please send a message with the -logfile /tmp/XWin.log and a short error description to <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> - -The hardware accelerated OpenGL was tested using: - - o glxgears - o glxinfo - o blender - o tuxkart - o GLUT demos (some did fail) - |