[Xcb] Window decoration with xcb

[deco33000 Jog]

Thanks Peter, the wm is not my first project, I was much more involved in the linux/bsd kernel hacking for the networking, security and performance parts. I am not yet knowledgeable in the graphic stack (and so GUIs) though.

But I will get through it, as I need it anyway.

Thanks for the pointers, I may post again for some questions in a couple of.. days/weeks I guess :)

Bye

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Jog


07.10.2015, 18:58, "Peter Harris" <pharris at opentext.com>:
> On 2015-10-07 09:47, deco33000 Jog wrote:
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  I need to create a custom window manager for linux.
>>  My first step would be to create window decorations.
>
> Actually, your first step should be reading and understanding all of
> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/icccm/icccm.html
> and
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html
> along with most of
> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xproto/x11protocol.html
>
>>  I need to put my designed images to replace the close, resize and
>>  minify buttons and change the border look and color.
>>
>>  Unfortunately, I followed the
>>  http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libxcb/tutorial/index.html
>>  tutorial with no luck finding what I need.
>
> If you're still at the tutorial stage, I recommend you choose something
> other than a window manager as your first project.
>
> A window manager is a complex and difficult project even if you're
> already familiar with XCB and the X11 protocol.
>
>>  What are the first steps to achieve that, please?
>
> If you still insist, a complete example of an XCB based non-tiling
> window manager can be retrieved from
> git://anongit.kde.org/kwin
>
> Peter Harris
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