[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: X Haskell Bindings 0.2

Felipe Lessa wrote:

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Antoine Latter wrote:

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The goal of XHB is to provide a Haskell implementation of the X11 wire protocol, similar in spirit to the X protocol C-language Binding (XCB). [snip] Related projects:

X C Bindings: http://xcb.freedesktop.org/

I wonder how XHB is related to Xmonad, specially the need for compositing. Sorry if this is a dumb question :).

It could be used for it. I once thought of hacking away on exactly that, but got demotivated by the fact that all that xlib code would have to be replaced (including xmonad-contrib). While nowadays xlib programs are compatible with xcb, because xlib itself is now based on xcb, the haskell xlib bindings aren't based on xhb... we'd need xcb bindings, which kinda defeats the purpose of xhb. Then there's of xcompmgr, which works fine enough for what I want to have, and I fail to come up with any useful application of compositing in a twm in addition to transparency for focus indication. OTOH, writing a separate compositing manager using xhb is certainly possible, fits better into the UNIX world, and would, most likely, be easily be snarfed into xmonad in case it's going to happen to be ported over to xhb. If you want to know how, have a look at the xcompmgr sources, it's straight forward. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.