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The Nano-X Window System
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libxcb support? #59

Closed Ellis2781 closed 2 years ago

Ellis2781 commented 2 years ago

I see that this project has the nx11 library for libx11 but it would be nice to see a wrapper for libxcb. I'm sure you may have thought of this but how would you implement this?

ghaerr commented 2 years ago

Hello @Ellis2781,

it would be nice to see a wrapper for libxcb

That could take a great deal of work, if you're looking for strict compatibility with existing programs using libxcb. The reason is that the nano-X wire protocol isn't the same as X11. A nano-X application could write the wire directly with not much work, that is handled mostly in nanox/nxproto.c. The majority of client requests to the server are in nanox/client.c. If the X11 libxcb application is small, and you're just looking for a way to convert those requests to nano-X protocol, that might not be too bad, unless there is complexity in the event handling/queing, etc.

We could discuss this in more depth, depending on what exactly you're looking for.

Thank you!