Freedesktop 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. This version has a lot of improvement, and major bug fixes (memory corruption
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. Now that I've swum all this months
X11 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. Problem is that this
X11 EWMH and XRandR Today I decided to add some EWMH support to awesome. It now supports a bunch of this extensions quite nicely. However, while reading the spec and writing the code, it appears that this forces a window manager to behave in only one way: have