https://github.com/BurntSushi/xgb

The X Go Binding is a low-level API to communicate with the X server. It is modeled on XCB and supports many X extensions.
https://github.com/BurntSushi/xgb

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The X Go Binding is a low-level API to communicate with the X server. It is modeled on XCB and supports many X extensions.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xgb
• Owner: BurntSushi
• License: other
• Created: 2012-04-29T03:26:36.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-02-12T02:29:16.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-18T15:18:15.621Z (26 days ago)
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.83 MB
• Stars: 487
• Watchers: 16
• Forks: 75
• Open Issues: 24
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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Note that this project is largely unmaintained as I don't have the time to do

or support more development. Please consider using this fork instead:

https://github.com/jezek/xgb

XGB is the X Go Binding, which is a low-level API to communicate with the

core X protocol and many of the X extensions. It is closely modeled after

XCB and xpyb.

It is thread safe and gets immediate improvement from parallelism when

GOMAXPROCS > 1. (See the benchmarks in xproto/xproto_test.go for evidence.)

Please see doc.go for more info.

Note that unless you know you need XGB, you can probably make your life

easier by using a slightly higher level library: xgbutil.

Quick Usage

===========

go get github.com/BurntSushi/xgb

go run go/path/src/github.com/BurntSushi/xgb/examples/create-window/main.go

BurntSushi's Fork

=================

I've forked the XGB repository from Google Code due to inactivty upstream.

Godoc documentation can be found here:

https://godoc.org/github.com/BurntSushi/xgb

Much of the code has been rewritten in an effort to support thread safety

and multiple extensions. Namely, go_client.py has been thrown away in favor

of an xgbgen package.

The biggest parts that *haven't* been rewritten by me are the connection and

authentication handshakes. They're inherently messy, and there's really no

reason to re-work them. The rest of XGB has been completely rewritten.

I like to release my code under the WTFPL, but since I'm starting with someone

else's work, I'm leaving the original license/contributor/author information

in tact.

I suppose I can legitimately release xgbgen under the WTFPL. To be fair, it is

at least as complex as XGB itself. *sigh*

What follows is the original README:

XGB README

==========

XGB is the X protocol Go language Binding.

It is the Go equivalent of XCB, the X protocol C-language Binding

(http://xcb.freedesktop.org/).

Unless otherwise noted, the XGB source files are distributed

under the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file.

Contributions should follow the same procedure as for the Go project:

http://golang.org/doc/contribute.html