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About libxcb
libxcb provides an interface to the X Window System protocol, which replaces the traditional Xlib interface. It has several advantages over Xlib, including:
- size: small, simple library, and lower memory footprint
- latency hiding: batch several requests and wait for the replies later
- direct protocol access: interface and protocol correspond exactly
- proven thread support: transparently access XCB from multiple threads
- easy extension implementation: interfaces auto-generated from XML-XCB
Xlib also uses XCB as a transport layer, allowing software to make requests and receive responses with both, which eases porting to XCB. However, client programs, libraries, and toolkits will gain the most benefit from a native XCB port.
More information about xcb is available from our website:
Please report any issues you find to the freedesktop.org bug tracker at:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcb/issues
Discussion about XCB occurs on the XCB mailing list:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb
You can obtain the latest development versions of XCB using GIT from the libxcb code repository at:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcb
For anonymous checkouts, use:
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcb.git
For developers, use:
git clone git@gitlab.freedesktop.org:xorg/lib/libxcb.git