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X11

A collection of 4 posts
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 [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xcb/xpyb/] (the XCB [http://xcb.freedesktop.org] Python bindngs) is out. This version has a lot of improvement, and major
Mar 22, 2012 2 min read
X11

Thoughts and rambling on the X protocol

Two years ago, while working on awesome [http://awesome.naquadah.org], I joined the Freedesktop [http://www.freedesktop.org] initiative to work on XCB [http://xcb.freedesktop.org]. I had to learn the arcane of the X11 protocol and all the mysterious and old world that goes with it. Now
Jun 1, 2010 8 min read
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 [http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/latest/] procotol for GTK+ applications. Problem is that this
Oct 3, 2008
X11

EWMH and XRandR

Today I decided to add some EWMH [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWMH] support to awesome [http://awesome.naquadah.org]. It now supports a bunch of this extensions quite nicely. However, while reading the spec [http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.4.html] and writing the code, it appears that
Dec 27, 2007 1 min read
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