Questions tagged [x11]
X11 is an extensible windowing system for bitmap displays. It forms the foundation of most Unix operating system GUIs.
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Idiomatic Rust API to X11 displays
I am currently implementing a native Rust API to X11, especially around the XDisplay for a related project.
I chose an object-oriented approach:
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Program to hide the cursor on a running X.org server
I have a use case where I need to programmatically hide the cursor on a running X.org server.
While the suggested C progam works, I wanted to learn a bit about the X.org API and get some practice with ...
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X11 Desktop Pager
This is a simple desktop pager for UNIX/X11 environments. More information in the manual:
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X11 file manager in C, using Xlib and imlib2
This is a still incomplete file manager for X11. It can only navigate
through directories, select files (and do nothing with them), call a
script to open files, and call a script to produce and cache ...
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Possible improvements to window swallowing program?
I have written a small program that swallows windows. It works in X.org using the xcb library. This is my first rust program but I have lots of other programming experience.
Any general improvements ...
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Bash script to mirror XWindow to remote SSH host
The source code within this question aims to provide a short-cut for mirroring a local XWindow (or session) to a remote host via SSH port forwarding, such as:
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Menu for X11 using Xlib in C
I am learning the xlib library and I made a xmenu utility in order to practice it.
It receives as input a menu specification where each line is a menu entry.
Each line can be indented with tabs to ...
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Get pixel color from screen in C++ on Linux
For a long period of time I worked on this code, mostly trying to understand it. That is the main reason for needed review. Second reason is simply that I would like to optimize it in any way you can ...
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Taskbar for X11 using Athena widgets
I am developing a simple taskbar for X11 using the Athena widgets. The current code is very limited: it assumes an EWMH-compliant window manager and only adds the initially running windows to the ...
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Lemonbar + perl scripting for workspaces
I have made this program to simulate polybar's bspwm module. So far, it works flawlessly, however it consumes too much ram and cpu ie 16-30%. I suspect it is the while loop causing the trouble but ...
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Sysinfo parser for a window manager status bar
The program is written mainly for the status bar in dwm (a window manager for Linux), but it can be used for any manager that takes input from the root window in X. It queries different resources in ...
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