X11 bindings for the rust programming language, similar to xcb being the X11 C bindings
Feel free to open issues for any problems or questions you might have. A comparison with some other Rust X11 libraries is available in an extra document.
This crate uses a code generator that is implemented in Rust. A copy of the generated code is included, so you do not need to run the generator unless you have modified the definitions or the generator itself.
The code generator uses the X11 XML description from
xcb-proto. A copy of xcb-proto that comes with the source code is used.
The interaction with libxcb via
XCBConnectionrequires at least libxcb 1.12.
No. If you have so many X11 connections that this would matter, you are doing something wrong. Also, it encourages people to write high-latency code instead of sending multiple requests and only afterwards wait for the replies.
Most X11 extensions are feature-gated. For example, to use the shared memory extansion, the
shmfeature has to be enabled.
The
all-extensionsfeature just enables all X11 extensions.
Additionally, the
allow-unsafe-codefeature enables
XCBConnection. This uses
libxcbinternally and allows sharing the underlying
xcb_connection_tpointer with other code.
The
cursorfeature enables X11 cursor support via the
cursormodule. This module helps with loading cursors from the current cursor theme.
The full X11 protocol is supported by this library. All extensions that are available in
xcb-protocan be used and even FD passing with the server is supported.
The changelog is available in a separate file.
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The subdirectory xcb-proto-1.14-1-g2b3559c contains a vendored copy of the package of the same name. It is covered by the MIT license. See xcb-proto-1.14-1-g2b3559c/COPYING for details.
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