There’s no more reliable way to disabuse someone of the idea that X11 is worth saving than to have them write a modern GL app without any frameworks, only raw GLX/Xlib.
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No cheating and looking at sample code either. You get to figure out the difference between glXCreateContext(), glXCreateNewContext(), and glXCreateContextAttribsARB() yourself :)
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Replying to @pcwalton
To be fair (tm) that particular bit is the same on Windows with WGL :/ Much easier to do cross-process surface sharing on X11 though!
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Replying to @vvuk
*If* GLX_texture_from_pixmap actually works, sure. (It doesn’t for me on Xwayland!)
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