X Window System Basics

Re:X Window System Basics by tabtab on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:12PM (#34329930)

Does anyone know of a project that puts an XML wrapper (markup) or command line interface around X Window? That way one can use or interface with an X Window "browser" without writing C.

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Re:X Window System Basics by throwawaybutwhy on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:19PM (#34330063)

Maybe xdotool [0] is what you're looking for.

[0] https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/

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Re:X Window System Basics by LtWorf on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:00PM (#34330642)

You might want to check dbus… most desktop applications have a dbus interface. I normally use qdbus from command line.

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Re:X Window System Basics by ktpsns on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:05PM (#34330720)

XML interfaces are common in toolkits, look at Guile for GTK or Qt Quick/QML. One of the ancient X window toolkits was the Athena widget set (baked in most X servers, https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libXaw/libXaw.html). I don't know from XML interface to design Athena GUIs.

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Re:X Window System Basics by buescher on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:10PM (#34331559)

dtksh did that, more or less. not with xml.

https://www.brendangregg.com/dtkshdemos.html

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