[xmonad] Transition from Xlib to XCB

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 21:01:46 CET 2012


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jochen Keil <jochen.keil at gmail.com> wrote:

> the wikipedia article on xmonad states that it is (was?) planned to
> move to XCB "as soon as bindings are available". So, afais there are
> quite recent bindings [1].
> Is there a good reason why nobody has started on this yet?
>

Wikipedia is apparently way behind.  It was started, and it was stopped
because xcb turns out to require a complete redesign of xmonad.  Likewise,
there is no intent to port xmonad to Wayland; it could not be done as a
port, but requires a complete redesign from scratch.

Other people are welcome to do such redesigns if they wish.

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