libxglue is a C library for easily writing X11 windows with a lower barrier of entry than using xlib or xcb. Notably, libxglue replaces neither of these and is meant to be used in tandem with xcb.
libxglue features an event loop that takes event handlers for handling XCB events and message handlers for handling UNIX socket messages. The latter is intended for herbstluftwm/bspwm style keybinds and configuration via sending socket messages from a shellscript and/or keybind daemon.
libxglue has an expanding list of auxillary functions for easing window manager development that mainly focus on reducing the boilerplate for common tasks like calculating the absolute position of a window.
see demo/ in the repository, this is a simple but short window manager that features basic window borders, window dragging, and when used with sxhkd running via the included config keybinds for closing and resizing windows.
Doxygen documentation can be generated with make doc and is located at doxygen/html/index.html
sudo make install (make sure to get dependencies)
there's also a lib and demo_wm target if you'd just like to build libxglue.so or build the demo WM binary
- libxcb
- xcb-util-error
- xcb-util-wm