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FOSDEM PWA

Event-driven X

K.4.601 | Day 2 | 14:00 - 14:25 | Speakers: Michael "Mouse" Parker

Event-driven X
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Abstract

Like most window-system architectures, X is fundamentally event-driven. So why not use an API that reflects that?

This talk is about an X interface library which is built on event-driven paradigms from the ground up. It sits in the same place in the software stack as Xlib and xcb; it's an alternative to them for an application to use when talking to the X server, most appropriate for applications which are themselves event-driven.

Speakers

Michael "Mouse" Parker

I've been working with X since the '80s, gaining some small notoriety on the X mailing list back then. I did the first implementation for NeXT 2bpp Cube and Slab hardware. I've written a ddx layer for SPARC cgfourteen framebuffers, supporting 8bpp and 24bpp on the screen simultaneously. I was one of the reviewers for Israel and Fortune's book about the server.

While I've been less visible in recent decades, I'm still noodling around X, with this talk's subject as an example.

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