mef@police.rutgers.edu (Marc E. Fiuczynski) (01/30/91)
Can someone explain to me what the MIT SHM extensions are.
Just point me to the proper man pages would be enough, but
if you have the time a little more info wouldn't hurt.
Thanks,
Marc
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mef@remus.rutgers.edu // UUCP: {backbone}!rutgers!remus.rutgers.edu!mefsimon@gmdtub (Simon Leinen) (02/09/91)
>>>>> On 30 Jan 91 15:48:13 GMT, mef@police.rutgers.edu (Marc E. >>>>> Fiuczynski) said: Marc> Can someone explain to me what the MIT SHM extensions are. Just Marc> point me to the proper man pages would be enough, but if you Marc> have the time a little more info wouldn't hurt. This question belongs in comp.windows.x. MIT-SHM is an extension to the X window system protocol which is handled by the default configuration of the sample server from MIT (and probably other vendors' servers, too). You can find out about this by typing `xdpyinfo' to your X display: ... number of extensions: 4 SHAPE >>> MIT-SHM Multi-Buffering MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD ... The MIT-SHM extension provides a fast transfer method for pixmap data for clients that run on the same machine as the server. I don't know about any programs that use it, but SHM should be beneficial for animation programs or so. -- Simon.