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
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
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.
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