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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Extension requests => Topic started by: _blue4meridian on March 28, 2012, 06:41:23 AM

Title: A stacking xcb window manager?
Post by: _blue4meridian 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.

Title: Re: A stacking xcb window manager?
Post by: curaga on March 28, 2012, 09:18:09 AM

Just curious, do you actually see some visible benefit from it using xcb?

Title: Re: A stacking xcb window manager?
Post by: _blue4meridian 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.

Title: Re: A stacking xcb window manager?
Post by: konaexpress on March 28, 2012, 12:31:45 PM

Looked kinda cool to play with................ :-X

Title: Re: A stacking xcb window manager?
Post by: bmarkus on March 28, 2012, 12:33:23 PM

Quote from: _blue4meridian 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.

Generic (marketing) statement.

Title: Re: A stacking xcb window manager?
Post by: _blue4meridian 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.