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images and shadow framebuffer updates to provide good performance. It also has a visual debugging mode for observing screen updates.
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which can do hardware-accelerated rendering if the underlying X server has the capability.
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Three recursive levels of nested Xephyr sessions, running on
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Zephyr

Linux Mint
Original author(s)
Developer(s)
freedesktop.org
C
Type
Display server
License
MIT License
freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr/
display server
X11
KDrive
window
framebuffer
X.Org Server
Glamor
libinput
SHM
Xorg
software rendering
OpenGL
forked version of Xephyr
Thin client
rio (windowing system)
"ANNOUNCE: xorg-server 1.16.0"
freedesktop.org
"X.Org 7.8 Will Not Come For A While"

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