Posts with tag x11
xpyb 1.3 released
It took a while to get it out, but finally, 3 years after the latest release (1.2), the version of 1.3 of xpyb (the XCB Python bindngs) is out.
22 Mar 2012 | Tags: python xcb xpyb freedesktop x11
Thoughts and rambling on the X protocol
Two years ago, while working on awesome, I joined the Freedesktop initiative to work on XCB. I had to learn the arcane of the X11 protocol and all the mysterious and old world that goes with it.
The eggtray problem
I still don’t know why but many GTK+ applications use something called eggtrayicon. As far as I know, eggtrayicon.c is a file written in 2002 by Anders Carlsson which implements the Freedesktop.org system tray procotol for GTK+ applications.
03 Oct 2008 | Tags: x11 gtk systray freedesktop