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
D-Bus Porting D-Bus to XCB: story of a failure Even if I recently stated I lost some of my faith in XCB, I still sometimes hack things to add support for it. These last days, I've worked on a D-Bus port from Xlib to XCB. The port was quite straight forward, since there's
Freedesktop Making startup-notification XCB native I'm trying to work on XCB this week. And today I've started to accomplish the second step of a long term goal: making an X11 only library using XCB as its primary interface instead of Xlib. Last year, I had extended the API of
Python Python cairo and XCB support cairo has a Python binding (pycairo) since a long time, and some months ago a Python binding for XCB (xpyb) has been released. Pycairo has no support for creating Xlib surfaces. You can get a Xlib surface from PyGTK and then use Pycairo to
awesome Various news: what happend during summer It's been a while since I blogged about something. So here's a bunch of things I've done the last month. Holidays Well, I've been in holidays one week. :-P awesome There have been a huge number of changes between 3.3 (released in June)
Freedesktop startup-notification ported to XCB Since Tuesday, I've begun to work on XCB portage of the startup-notification library. I've just completed the job, and send a bunch of patches to the XDG mailing list. If the patches are merged, which I don't doubt, I'll be able to use this