NAME

X11::XCB - perl bindings for libxcb

SYNOPSIS

use X11::XCB::Connection;
my $x = X11::XCB::Connection->new;

my $window = $x->root->create_child(
  class => WINDOW_CLASS_INPUT_OUTPUT,
  rect => [0, 0, 200, 200],
  background_color => '#FF00FF',
);

$window->map;

DESCRIPTION

These bindings wrap libxcb (a C library to speak with X11, in many cases better than Xlib in many aspects) and provide a nice object oriented interface to its methods (using Mouse).

Please note that its aim is NOT to provide yet another toolkit for creating graphical applications. It is a low-level method of communicating with X11. Use cases include testcases for all kinds of X11 applications, implementing really simple applications which do not require an graphical toolkit (such as GTK, QT, etc.) or command-line utilities which communicate with X11.

WARNING: X11::XCB is in a rather early stage and thus API breaks may happen in future versions. It is not yet widely used.

SEE ALSO

http://xcb.freedesktop.org/

The website of libxcb.

http://code.stapelberg.de/git/X11-XCB/

The git webinterface for the development of X11::XCB.

http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3/tree/testcases?h=next

The i3 window manager includes testcases which use X11::XCB.

AUTHOR

Michael Stapelberg, <michael+xcb@stapelberg.de> Maik Fischer, <maikf+xcb@qu.cx>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Michael Stapelberg Copyright (C) 2011 Maik Fischer

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.