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Offline _blue4meridian

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A stacking xcb window manager?
« on: March 28, 2012, 06:41:23 AM »
uwm (@http://sourceforge.net/projects/uwm/#screenshots) could be a winner.  It's fast, light and iconic so perhaps ii's repo material.  Until fltk is ported to xcb it may be a interesting alternative to flwm.
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Offline curaga

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Re: A stacking xcb window manager?
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2012, 09:18:09 AM »
Just curious, do you actually see some visible benefit from it using xcb?
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Re: A stacking xcb window manager?
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2012, 11:05:10 AM »
Only the benefit they claim (@http://xcb.freedesktop.org/./Features/).  Their focus appears to be speed, stability and small footprint.  They don't seem to indicate what they are sacrificing to achieve this.

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Re: A stacking xcb window manager?
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2012, 12:31:45 PM »
Looked kinda cool to play with................ :-X
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Re: A stacking xcb window manager?
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2012, 12:33:23 PM »
Only the benefit they claim (@http://xcb.freedesktop.org/./Features/).  Their focus appears to be speed, stability and small footprint.  They don't seem to indicate what they are sacrificing to achieve this.

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Re: A stacking xcb window manager?
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2012, 06:37:36 PM »
If there is a deal breaker it might be found here (@http://xcb.freedesktop.org/XCBToDo/).  Although xcb may need improvement it appears to be at the least an interesting alternative to xlib.
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