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@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ Release notes for 2.18 * JPEG2000 support is no longer enabled by default. It must be explicitly turned on, by passing --with-libjasper to configure. +* GDK has been reworked to implement 'client-side windows'. This offers + exciting new possibilities, such as transformed, offscreen rendering, + but it breaks some long-standing assumptions that applications may + have about GDK windows. Setting the environment variable + GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS makes GDK create a native X11 window for each + GDK window, which might make problematic applications work better. + Release notes for 2.16 ====================== diff --git a/docs/reference/gtk/running.sgml b/docs/reference/gtk/running.sgml index 4e32c253ed..4c3c97fcdc 100644 --- a/docs/reference/gtk/running.sgml +++ b/docs/reference/gtk/running.sgml @@ -342,6 +342,16 @@ nevertheless. </formalpara> <formalpara> + <title><envar>GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS</envar></title> + + <para> + If set, GDK creates all windows as native windows. This can help + applications that make assumptions about 1-1 correspondence between + GDK windows and X11 windows. + </para> +</formalpara> + +<formalpara> <title><envar>XDG_DATA_HOME</envar>, <envar>XDG_DATA_DIRS</envar></title> <para> |