Re: Window managers ( was Re: newbie question )

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:41 PM, David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> wrote:
> On 23 Apr 2009, at 00:28, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
>
>>  I am also watching a new window manager called i3.
>>  It is written in XCB, a supposed replacement for xlib.
>>  XCB should be faster than xlib and can use cairo as backend.
>>  But it is still at very early stage.
>
> XCB is now very stable and feature-complete.  The documentation is somewhat
> lacking, but because XCB calls corresponds directly to protocol requests and
> the protocol is very well-documented, this is not a big issue.  New versions
> of XLib use XCB internally.

  Sorry for my English.
  I meant i3 is at very early stage, not XCB.
  Maybe GNUstep should have a XCB backend.

  Yen-Ju

>
> I recently committed my (quite early) work-in-progress ProjectManager code
> to the Étoilé repository.  This will be a compositing window manager for the
> Étoilé environment and is written using XCB.  I have tried to separate the
> policy and mechanism out and, when it is a bit more complete, will be
> splitting that code out into an XCBKit, with the aim of being able to use it
> in GNUstep back ends.  It can already integrate with an NSRunLoop and
> deliver XCB events as messages in a run loop, so it should be very easy to
> write something that turns these into NSEvents.  I hope to spend some time
> on this before and at the hackathon.
>
> David



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Yen-Ju Chen