Thursday 9 November 2017

gtk3 + broadway + libreoffice

Out of the box in Fedora 26 I see that our gtk3 version of LibreOffice mostly works under broadway so here's libreoffice displaying through firefox. Toolbar is toast, but dialogs and menus work.


broadwayd :5 &
firefox http://127.0.0.1:8085 &
GDK_BACKEND=broadway BROADWAY_DISPLAY=:5 soffice --nologo &

Monday 23 October 2017

Discrepancy Report #107743

Short (1996) little article about a bug in the shuttle starboard manipulator arm display position.

Spoiler: A half-dozen pages of forms detail [the error] ... the most remarkable thing about the error and its paper trail. “There is no starboard manipulator arm”

Monday 11 September 2017

Flickerless Gtk3 OpenGL Transitions

While I got OpenGL transitions working under Gtk3 at the end of last year basically matching the Gtk2/Generic OpenGL quality the transition into and out of the OpenGL sequence wasn't very satisfying. And with access to HiDPI it was clearly even worse with an unscaled image momentarily appearing before the correct one.

So here's the before and after of the improvements that landed on upstream master today. Just screen-recordings with built in ctrl+shift+alt+t under gnome3 and positioned side by side and clipped roughly together in pitivi