On Nov 11, 10:47 am, Matijs van Zuijlen <mat...@matijs.net> wrote:

> Have you considered binding and using XCB? Or even skipping the C part and
> implementing the X protocol in Ruby? The old RubyX11 library did this, and you
> could probably generate something straight from XML, which is how XCB is generated.

Yes, I considered this, but I prefer binding to Xlib first, I will
probably implement an implementation that uses the protocol too, but
it's low in the priority list.