Immersion of Xwindow applications into a 3D workbench

ABSTRACT

The coexistence of 3D applications within 2D window managers is still difficult. We experiment a real-time immersion of Xwindow applications into a 3D scene and allow minimal interaction with them. We use the Xlib structures and routines to catch the position size, and graphical content of the widgets.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
3D GUI, 3D interaction, X protocol