[PATCH xrandr-utils 0/6] Refactor xrandr internals into libxrandr-utils

Julien Cristau julien at cristau.org
Fri Dec 23 11:16:40 PST 2011


On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 18:11:22 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 07:58:09PM -0800, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> > I'm entirely in favor of this goal. But I'd really like to see
> > newly-developed X library APIs exposed as pure XCB APIs at this point.
> > Pretty much everyone is shipping Xlib/XCB now, so it's no hardship for
> > higher-layer Xlib-based code to call XCB-only libraries, and doing it
> > now saves us having to migrate callers later.
> 
> Would this require changes to libXrandr, since libXrandrUtils is
> intended to wrapper that library?  If not, I'd need some guidance but
> would be willing to give it a shot.
> 
No, it would mean using libxcb-randr instead of libXrandr.

Cheers,
Julien


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