-----Original Message----- From: Miller Puckette [mailto:mpuckett@man104-1.ucsd.edu] Subject: Re: gem performance under linux
My own plan is to run Pd and "pd-gui" on different machines. (There's a "-guicmd" flag in Pd in which you could specify, for example, "ssh next-door pd-gui". This could also be of use for people wanting to run Pd on embedded processors!)
I normally do this with two instances of Pd running...one for audio, one for graphics. I just connect via netsend/receive.
The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to tell Gem to render to the "root" window on the local machine (while Pd-gui is drawing on the other machine's display). I bet it's easy but I have to learn about the X window system's window-finding-and-specifying hooks; then I have to modify the "gemwin" object to write to an existing window instead of creating a new one. Sounds easy, right?
Shouldn't be too difficult. I used to do tricks like this all the time on SGIs.
Later, Mark
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