[Xcb] XCB-based window management: more xcb-util libraries

[Vincent Torri]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Jamey Sharp wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:05:21PM +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> > > I'd like to get your code into CVS soon: it looks ready for that to me.
> >
> > the code is really ugly...
> >
> > tell me where i can add it, something like xcb/misc/xcb_image
> > and misc is used for ugly or test code
>
> Hah! You think *your* code is bad? Take a look at mine. :-)
>
> I've just imported the code I wrote last summer for XCB-based window
> management. This adds libraries for atom caching, callback interfaces
> for events and property changes, an ICCCM binding, and a convenience
> library for writing window managers. All of the code is at an early
> prototype stage, though the atom cache bits are almost feature-complete
> as far as I'm concerned.

Cool, i'll update the tutorial for them.

>
> The atom cache uses gperf to generate a perfect hash function for the
> pre-defined atoms, so that's now a build requirement for the xcb-util
> module. Sorry.
>
> So I hope everyone will enjoy making fun of my code ;-) and maybe
> appreciate some more examples of XCB usage. There's even a sort-of
> functional window manager in the wm directory. (It doesn't seem to
> handle focus correctly, presumably because I don't understand focus. And
> it only lets you move windows around, anyway, so it's not a very
> practical window manager.)

Your code will be usesul when someone port ecore to xcb :) (first, it's
evas on my todo list)
Anyway, i wanted too look at your wm code. thanks

Vincent