Is there a cairo like surface for the screen without the window hassle

[Paul Rubin]

Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be> writes:
> So does someone know of a package that provides a cairo like surface

Not sure what a cairo like surface is, but maybe you want HTML5 Canvas
that's built into recent browsers.  So you'd just embed a web server
in your application and interact with it through a browser.